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Quote: for Plato, beings are ideas, sensible objects are defined via ideas, and sensible objects participate in the ideas that designate them
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abstraction by common attributes
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Plato … believed that any knowledge of things as wholes … thought it impossible to find a common definition … whole "ideas," whereas all the objects of perception, … "participate" in an idea which designates them. Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: Plato thought it impossible to find a common definition for sensible things; they change too much
Topic: abstraction (62 items)
Topic: existence (29 items)
Topic: skepticism about knowledge (34 items)
Topic: abstraction by common attributes (19 items)