What is the opposite of Plato's problem?

Question

• Plato's problem

Plato's problem is the term given by Noam Chomsky to "the problem of explaining how we can know so much" given our limited experience.

In the field of linguistics, Plato's problem is the problem of finding an explanation for how a child acquires language, even though the child does not receive explicit instruction and the primary linguistic data a child does receive is limited.

What is the opposite of this problem, and who asked for it?

I.e., "the problem of explaining how we know so little given the proliferation of information in the modern world!"

Answer 1

In linguistics Chomsky has a position on this as well: deep structure to language is much more complex than the surface level we do understand, which we grasp largely through innate knowledge and relatively small triggers to unlock it.

Deep structure is just that, it’s so complex we might never even fully understand it according to Chomsky.

Outside of linguistics I think you’d need to add more info. Chomsky does say physicalism is a hollow term for the past 200 years so that may be one way he thinks we are bereft of understanding of the wider world even with so much knowledge, but again this is getting out of scope. He believes all creatures have inherent limits to understanding the world.