Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Minerals' and 'Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity''

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5 ideas

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

17945

Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

17946

Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

16756

Substantial forms must exist, to explain the stability of metals like silver and tin [Albertus Magnus]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

17944

'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]