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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Republic' and 'Introduction to Aesthetics'

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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
The plurality of beautiful things must belong to a single class, because they have a single particular character [Plato]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
Craftsmen making furniture refer to the form, but no one manufactures the form of furniture [Plato]
Forms are not universals, as they don't cover every general term [Plato, by Annas]
The true reality is organised and harmonised in a rational order [Plato]
Plato's Forms are said to have no location in space [Plato, by Aristotle]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
Believers in the beautiful see that it is separate from things that participate in it [Plato]
A Form applies to a set of particular things with the same name [Plato]
8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
Plato mistakenly thought forms were totally abstracted away from matter [Bacon on Plato]
Plato's Forms not only do not come from the senses, but they are beyond possibility of sensing [Plato, by Kant]