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23 ideas
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 3. Structural Relations
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Plato's idea of 'structure' tends to be mathematically expressed [Plato, by Koslicki]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals
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You must always mean the same thing when you utter the same name [Plato]
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If you deny that each thing always stays the same, you destroy the possibility of discussion [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms
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Plato's Forms meant that the sophists only taught the appearance of wisdom and virtue [Plato, by Nehamas]
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If admirable things have Forms, maybe everything else does as well [Plato]
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219
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If absolute ideas existed in us, they would cease to be absolute [Plato]
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228
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Greatness and smallness must exist, to be opposed to one another, and come into being in things [Plato]
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Platonists argue for the indivisible triangle-in-itself [Plato, by Aristotle]
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Plato moves from Forms to a theory of genera and principles in his later work [Plato, by Frede,M]
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When Diogenes said he could only see objects but not their forms, Plato said it was because he had eyes but no intellect [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]
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It would be absurd to think there were abstract Forms for vile things like hair, mud and dirt [Plato]
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The concept of a master includes the concept of a slave [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking
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Participation is not by means of similarity, so we are looking for some other method of participation [Plato]
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Each idea is in all its participants at once, just as daytime is a unity but in many separate places at once [Plato]
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If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea [Plato]
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The whole idea of each Form must be found in each thing which participates in it [Plato]
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If things partake of ideas, this implies either that everything thinks, or that everything actually is thought [Plato]
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If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common [Aristotle on Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / c. Self-predication
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If gods are like men, they are just eternal men; similarly, Forms must differ from particulars [Aristotle on Plato]
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If absolute greatness and great things are seen as the same, another thing appears which makes them seem great [Plato]
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Nothing can be like an absolute idea, because a third idea intervenes to make them alike (leading to a regress) [Plato]
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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques
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The Forms cannot be changeless if they are in changing things [Aristotle on Plato]
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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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