Single Idea 557

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / d. Forms critiques]

Full Idea

A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause.

Gist of Idea

A Form is a cause of things only in the way that white mixed with white is a cause

Source

comment on Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Aristotle - Metaphysics 991a

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.34

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