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Single Idea 643

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

Full Idea

How can the Forms, while being the substances of things, have being separately from them?

Gist of Idea

How can the Forms both be the substance of things and exist separately from them?

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1080a01)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.406