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Single Idea 317
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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Full Idea
Our basic description of the universe contained an intelligible and unchanging model, and a visible and changing copy of it.
Gist of Idea
The universe is basically an intelligible and unchanging model, and a visible and changing copy of it
Source
Plato (Timaeus [c.362 BCE], 48e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Timaeus and Critias', ed/tr. Lee,Desmond [Penguin 1971], p.67
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[how particulars are said to relate to Forms]:
304
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Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them
[Plato]
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212
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it
[Plato]
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213
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once
[Plato]
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215
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought
[Plato]
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216
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea
[Plato]
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218
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation
[Plato]
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1
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There is only one source for all beauty
[Plato]
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24227
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One and one can only become two by sharing in Twoness
[Plato]
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368
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Other things are named after the Forms because they participate in them
[Plato]
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4447
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If the good is one, is it unchanged when it is in particulars, and is it then separated from itself?
[Plato]
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24228
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Believers in the beautiful see that it is separate from things that participate in it
[Plato]
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17
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A Form applies to a set of particular things with the same name
[Plato]
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317
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The universe is basically an intelligible and unchanging model, and a visible and changing copy of it
[Plato]
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556
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If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common
[Aristotle on Plato]
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16110
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If partaking explains unity, what causes participating, and what is participating?
[Aristotle]
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633
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If you accept Forms, you must accept the more powerful principle of 'participating' in them
[Aristotle]
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643
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How can the Forms both be the substance of things and exist separately from them?
[Aristotle]
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647
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There is a confusion because Forms are said to be universal, but also some Forms are separable and particular
[Aristotle]
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2475
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Don't define something by a good instance of it; a good example is a special case of the ordinary example
[Fodor]
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17946
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Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness
[Nehamas]
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10722
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Instantiation is set-membership
[Oliver]
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6900
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A prior understanding of beauty is needed to assert that the Form of the Beautiful is beautiful
[Westaway]
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7964
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How can universals connect instances, if they are nothing like them?
[Macdonald,C]
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