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Full Idea
It is troubling that if admirable things have abstract ideas, then perhaps everything else must have ideas as well.
Gist of Idea
If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well
Source
Plato (Parmenides [c.366 BCE], 130d)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.213