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Ideas for Anaxarchus, Plato and Richard L. Kirkham
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion [Plato]
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The plurality of beautiful things must belong to a single class, because they have a single particular character [Plato]
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153
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It takes a person to understand, by using universals, and by using reason to create a unity out of sense-impressions [Plato]
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227
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue [Plato, by Nehamas]
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5094
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Plato's Forms are said to have no location in space [Plato, by Aristotle]
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210
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It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt [Plato]
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228
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Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things [Plato]
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321
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For knowledge and true opinion to be different there must be Forms; otherwise we are just stuck with sensations [Plato]
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Good thinkers spot forms spread through things, or included within some larger form [Plato]
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The not-beautiful is part of the beautiful, though opposed to it, and is just as real [Plato]
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Craftsmen making furniture refer to the form, but no one manufactures the form of furniture [Plato]
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154
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We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms [Plato]
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20906
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Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself [Plato, by Aristotle]
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The Forms arise whenever we talk of something 'in itself'. [Plato]
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211
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
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Things like the Equal and the Beautiful, which are real, must be unchanging [Plato]
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Forms are not universals, as they don't cover every general term [Plato, by Annas]
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219
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
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220
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
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The true reality is organised and harmonised in a rational order [Plato]
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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
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Plato's Forms were seen as part of physics, rather than of metaphysics [Plato, by Annas]
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307
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Something will always be well-made if the maker keeps in mind the eternal underlying pattern [Plato]
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318
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In addition to the underlying unchanging model and a changing copy of it, there must also be a foundation of all change [Plato]
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When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
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360
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We must have a prior knowledge of equality, if we see 'equal' things and realise they fall short of it [Plato]
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1607
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Diotima said the Forms are the objects of desire in philosophical discourse [Plato, by Roochnik]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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There is only one source for all beauty [Plato]
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556
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If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common [Aristotle on Plato]
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317
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The universe is basically an intelligible and unchanging model, and a visible and changing copy of it [Plato]
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215
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought [Plato]
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216
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [Plato]
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One and one can only become two by sharing in Twoness [Plato]
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368
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Other things are named after the Forms because they participate in them [Plato]
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Believers in the beautiful see that it is separate from things that participate in it [Plato]
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17
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A Form applies to a set of particular things with the same name [Plato]
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212
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it [Plato]
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If the good is one, is it unchanged when it is in particulars, and is it then separated from itself? [Plato]
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304
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Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato]
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213
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once [Plato]
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218
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
217
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Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) [Plato]
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190
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If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato]
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563
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If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars [Aristotle on Plato]
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214
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If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
565
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The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things [Aristotle on Plato]
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Plato mistakenly thought forms were totally abstracted away from matter [Bacon on Plato]
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Plato's Forms not only do not come from the senses, but they are beyond possibility of sensing [Plato, by Kant]
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557
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A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause [Aristotle on Plato]
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