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Single Idea 557
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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Full Idea
A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause.
Gist of Idea
A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause
Source
comment on Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Aristotle - Metaphysics 991a
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.34
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23890
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For Plato true wisdom is supernatural
[Plato, by Weil]
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3060
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Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books
[Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
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23891
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Two contradictories force us to find a relation which will correlate them
[Plato, by Weil]
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3039
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When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect
[Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
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565
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The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things
[Aristotle on Plato]
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14502
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Plato's idea of 'structure' tends to be mathematically expressed
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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557
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A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause
[Aristotle on Plato]
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17948
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Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue
[Plato, by Nehamas]
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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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20906
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Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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563
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If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars
[Aristotle on Plato]
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9607
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The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects
[Brown,JR on Plato]
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17085
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A good explanation totally rules out the opposite explanation (so Forms are required)
[Plato, by Ruben]
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13263
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We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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13261
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Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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13265
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Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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593
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Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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13260
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Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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11237
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Only universals have essence
[Plato, by Politis]
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11238
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Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is
[Plato, by Politis]
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9274
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Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True
[Plato, by Gray]
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94
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Pleasure is better with the addition of intelligence, so pleasure is not the good
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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1651
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Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions
[Vlastos on Plato]
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3324
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Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech
[Benardete,JA on Plato]
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7503
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Plato never refers to examining the conscience
[Plato, by Foucault]
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2173
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As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul
[Williams,B on Plato]
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17947
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Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life
[Plato, by Nehamas]
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6015
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Plato, unusually, said that theoretical and practical wisdom are inseparable
[Plato, by Kraut]
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2912
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Plato is boring
[Nietzsche on Plato]
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1526
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Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated
[Plato, by Aristotle]
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