Single Idea 216

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking]

Full Idea

That by participation in which like things are made like, will be the absolute idea, will it not?

Gist of Idea

If things are made alike by participating in something, that thing will be the absolute idea

Source

Plato (Parmenides [c.366 BCE], 132e)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.221

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