Forms

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Forms are the eternal, unchanging, and perfect intelligible realities that, in Plato’s philosophy, ground the being and knowledge of all particular things.

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Forms canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Platonic metaphysical concept
abstract object
intelligible reality
object of contemplation
object of dialectic
object of knowledge
universal
arePartOf Plato's epistemology
Plato's metaphysics
linked to: Platonism

Plato's ontology
linked to: Platonism

Plato's philosophy
Plato's theory of Forms
attributedTo Plato
characterizedAs causes of particulars
eternal
independent of space
independent of time
intelligible
more real than sensible things
non-sensible
objects of true knowledge
paradigms of sensible things
perfect
separate from particulars
unchangeable essences
unchanging
contrastedWith sensible particulars
world of becoming
discussedIn Parmenides
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Republic
Symposium
Timaeus
existIn intelligible realm
realm of being
groundOf being of particulars
essences of things
knowledge of particulars
objective truth
objective value
hasSubtype aesthetic Forms
mathematical Forms
moral Forms
natural kind Forms
relational Forms
relatedConcept Form of the Good
Ideas (Platonic)
linked to: Platonism

dialectic
participation
recollection

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Book VI of Plato's Republic centralTheme Forms
subject linked to: Book VI