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Full Idea
Due to the mathematical nature of structure and the teleological cause underlying the creation of Platonic wholes, these wholes are intelligible, and are in fact the proper objects of science.
Gist of Idea
We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology
Source
report of Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Kathrin Koslicki - The Structure of Objects 5.3
Book Ref
Koslicki,Kathrin: 'The Structure of Objects' [OUP 2008], p.100
A Reaction
I like this idea, because it pays attention to the connection between how we conceive objects to be, and how we are able to think about objects. Only examining these two together enables us to grasp metaphysics.