Philosophy: Plato

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Created on: 31-05-18 18:37

The Forms

perfect, single versions of everything found on Earth. They are found in the realm of forms

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Aristotle's Objection 1.

Plato assumes that for something to be pure, it needs to be eternal.

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Aristotle's Objection 2.

if the forms are so essential to true understanding, why does no one study them?

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Aristotle's Objection 3.

the forms have no practical value. a doctor doesnt look for perfect health, he only looks for the right individual health for a patient

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Aristotle's Objection 4.

the idea that theoretical knowledge of something leads necessarily to being able to do it is wrong. practical knowledge is learned through practice and observation, not through intellectual knowledge

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Aristotle's Objection 5.

some things have no form, according to platonists. no forms of numbers, only oneness and twoness etc

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A.J Ayer & Kotarbinski's objection

assuming that vecause we have a name like good and beauty, there must be something corresponding to that term in reality, after all nouns name things. Ayer calls this a 'primitive superstition). kortabinski addresses these types of nouns as anomatoid

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Empiricist Objection

empiricists would object to the various assumptions about a priori knowledge. there is also no empirical evidence for the forms

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Karl Popper's objection

Argues that plato is determined to find a certainty which he cannot find in a world of continual change

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Plato assumes that for something to be pure, it needs to be eternal.

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Philosophy: Plato