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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