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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

15658	The hidden harmony is stronger than the visible [Heraclitus]
	Full Idea: The hidden harmony is stronger (or 'better') than the visible.
	From: Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B055), quoted by Hippolytus - Refutation of All Heresies 9.9.5
	A reaction: 'An unapparent connection [harmonia] is stronger than an apparent one' is Curd's translation. I'm taking this for essentialism. It is the basic idea of the essentialising child (see Gelman). The hidden explains the apparent.

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

153	It takes a person to understand, by using universals, and by using reason to create a unity out of sense-impressions [Plato]
	Full Idea: It takes a man to understand by the use of universals, and to collect out of the multiplicity of sense-impressions a unity arrived at by a process of reason.
	From: Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 249b)

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms

154	We would have an overpowering love of knowledge if we had a pure idea of it - as with the other Forms [Plato]
	Full Idea: What overpowering love knowledge would inspire if it could bring a clear image of itself before our sight, and the same may be said of the other forms.
	From: Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 250d)
	A reaction: the motivation in Plato's theory