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7/7/2025, 6:25:56 PM
Plato argued that the physical world we see around us is only a shadow of the true reality. According to him, there are “Forms” (or “Ideas”), which are perfect, unchanging concepts or archetypes of things we see in the physical world. For instance, the Form of a "tree" would be the perfect idea of what "tree-ness" is, while all actual trees are just imperfect manifestations of that ideal.
6/28/2025, 12:40:02 AM
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The Intelligible World (World of Forms/Ideas): This is a higher, non-physical realm containing perfect, eternal, unchanging, and absolute essences or "Forms." These Forms are the true reality, and physical objects "participate" in or "imitate" these Forms.
The Intelligible World (World of Forms/Ideas): This is a higher, non-physical realm containing perfect, eternal, unchanging, and absolute essences or "Forms." These Forms are the true reality, and physical objects "participate" in or "imitate" these Forms.
6/21/2025, 4:32:55 PM
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