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Single Idea 321

[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms ]

Full Idea

If intelligence and true opinion are different, then the forms must exist, but if they are the same, then what our senses perceive must be the most certain reality.

Gist of Idea

For knowledge and true opinion to be different there must be Forms; otherwise we are just stuck with sensations

Source

Plato (Timaeus [c.349 BCE], 51d)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Penguin 1971], p.71