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Single Idea 640
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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Full Idea
All methods employed to demonstrate the Forms either cannot be formulated validly, or produce Forms even for those things for which there are not supposed to be any Forms.
Gist of Idea
All attempts to prove the Forms are either invalid, or prove Forms where there aren't supposed to be any
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1079a04)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.402
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[criticisms of Plato's theory of Forms]:
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12122
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Plato mistakenly thought forms were totally abstracted away from matter
[Bacon on Plato]
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5574
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Plato's Forms not only do not come from the senses, but they are beyond possibility of sensing
[Plato, by Kant]
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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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565
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The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things
[Aristotle on Plato]
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5130
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It is meaningless to speak of 'man-himself', because it has the same definition as plain 'man'
[Aristotle]
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27
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Eternal white is no whiter than temporary white, and it is the same with goodness
[Aristotle]
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28
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How will a vision of pure goodness make someone a better doctor?
[Aristotle]
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16145
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Predications only pick out kinds of things, not things in themselves
[Aristotle]
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16108
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If men exist by participating in two forms (Animal and Biped), they are plural, not unities
[Aristotle]
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605
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The Forms have to be potentialities, not actual knowledge or movement
[Aristotle]
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618
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There is no point at all in the theory of Forms unless it contains a principle that produces movement
[Aristotle]
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640
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All attempts to prove the Forms are either invalid, or prove Forms where there aren't supposed to be any
[Aristotle]
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641
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Are there forms for everything, or for negations, or for destroyed things?
[Aristotle]
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642
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What possible contribution can the Forms make to perceptible entities?
[Aristotle]
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4470
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Aristotle is not asserting facts about the location of properties, but about their ontological status
[Aristotle, by Moreland]
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645
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If two is part of three then numbers aren't Forms, because they would all be intermingled
[Aristotle]
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1677
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We can forget the Forms, as they are irrelevant, and not needed in giving demonstrations
[Aristotle]
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20817
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Platonic Forms are just our thoughts
[Stoic school, by Ps-Plutarch]
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11205
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If the form of 'human' contains 'many', Socrates isn't human; if it contains 'one', Socrates is Plato
[Aquinas]
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17192
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The 'universal' term 'man' is just imagining whatever is the same in a multitude of men
[Spinoza]
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11914
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Platonic explanations of universals actually diminish our understanding
[Molnar]
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3353
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If there is no causal interaction with transcendent Platonic objects, how can you learn about them?
[Benardete,JA]
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7039
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How could you tell if the universals were missing from a world of instances?
[Heil]
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