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Ideas for 'The Intrinsic Quality of Experience', 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 3: Memory' and 'Phaedrus'

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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