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Single Idea 641
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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Full Idea
The Argument from Sciences produces Forms for every possible object of science! One-over-many arguments produce Forms for negations! The Argument from the Thought of a Perished Object gives Forms for destroyed things!
Gist of Idea
Are there forms for everything, or for negations, or for destroyed things?
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1079a07)
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]:
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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