Single Idea 2068

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism]

Full Idea

With what physical faculty do we perceive being and not-being, similarity and dissimilarity, identity and difference, oneness and many, odd and even and other maths, ….fineness and goodness?

Gist of Idea

With what physical faculty do we perceive pairs of opposed abstract qualities?

Source

Plato (Theaetetus [c.364 BCE], 185d)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Theaetetus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1987], p.88