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6. Which one of these is a property of a form?

  • Eternal, unchanging, an architype
  • Contingent and changing
  • A shadow, a lower thing

7. What is the third man argument?

  • If man is a copy of a form, where did that come from? there must be a copy before that causes infinite regress, not possible.
  • If you pass on an idea from one man to another eventually it will get to a third and the message of philosphers will be known to all
  • DNA passes down ideas, from one man to another to a third generation and so on. This shows forms aren't real but only learned.

8. What does the cave in the analogy of the cave represent

  • The Empirical world
  • The illusions
  • The realm of forms
  • Darkness