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Single Idea 216

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

Full Idea

That by participation in which like things are made like, will be the absolute idea, will it not?

Gist of Idea

If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 132e)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.221