... science as well, can be illustrated by the next simple example. Suppose you see ten different flowers in bloom or ten different fishes in an aquarium or ten differently shaped chairs? You see differences then but also unity. That is also why we use sort-names like chair, flower, fish and the like. All ... chairs are related in one way or another, that is what we see. How do we see this correspondence in different shapes and forms, the Chair in every chair, the Flower ... ideas of essences in his mind, as memories from the eternity. And when the child then later sees a chair or flower,...

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... we are in, and the world of reality is a population of forms. These forms are best described as "ideal archetypes (Chaffee 199). For example, there are a thousand different designs for chairs which exist in the real world. However, according to Plato there is, somewhere, the idea of a perfect chair in which all woodworkers base their flawed ... chairs off of (Cox). Plato illustrated his concept of reality with his divided line analogy. Below the line is the realm of becoming, which includes images and sensible objects. An image ... ...

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... , meaning the origin; and the final cause, meaning the goal or the end point (Irwin 127). The theory of final causes makes sense for man made things, such as chairs, because chairs for example we're made so they could be sat on. However, natural processes and organisms seem to have no creator. Surprisingly enough, Aristotle explains that not all final causes ... ...

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... truly defines a thing. By the time of the Republic, Plato had come around to the view that everything had Forms--not just virtues, but tangible things like beds, chairs, etc. We are surrounded by chairs, but there is a single Form of the "chair" that is common to all of them and makes them what they are. The other thing we need to ... ...

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... truly defines a thing. By the time of the Republic, Plato had come around to the view that everything had Forms--not just virtues, but tangible things like beds, chairs, etc. We are surrounded by chairs, but there is a single Form of the "chair" that is common to all of them and makes them what they are. The other thing we need to ... ...

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... word or concept to many different objects. Let us take for example, how can the word chair be used for all the individual objects in the physical world that are chairs? I think Plato answered this question correctly by saying that various things can be called by the same name because they all have something in common. He called this common factor ... the thing's form. So I agree with Plato in that this solves the problem of how objects in the material world are all distinct, that no two chairs are exactly the same, yet they all have `chairness' in common. There are different objects ref...

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... to tell about something the author wants to reveal. And much is revealed in The Cave. The setting is, most appropriately, in a cave. At the bottom are men sitting in chairs. They are bound so they cannot move from their seats, or move their heads and are forced to wear blinders so that they can only see directly ahead of them ... ...

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... " (Cohen, Marc. "The Allegory of the Cave") Plato explains this with his eight stages of cognition. The first level is Belief. This is when the prisoners are strapped down in chairs staring at shadows being made by creatures dancing in front of a fire behind them. This is all they know; these shadows are the prisoners" reality. ( Halsted notes October 6, 2003) Plato ... ...

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