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[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms]

Full Idea

Plato claims that the Forms are not beyond the heavens, because they are not anywhere.

Gist of Idea

Plato's Forms are said to have no location in space

Source

report of Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE]) by Aristotle - Physics 203a09

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Physics', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1996], p.63


A Reaction

This is an important corrective to caricature accounts of Plato's Forms (encouraged, I'm afraid, by 'Phaedrus'), when critics talk about 'Platonic Heaven'. Forms are not part of space-time. I like the view that they are hypothetical truths.