✚ Śunyata darśana: Diogenes enlightens Plato on the essential nature of emptinesspic.twitter.com/CvaOgwJjTw
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Um, well, I’ll try. First a disclaimer: I’m not the slightest bit expert on Plato; I know him mostly only from second sources. And I mostly I read those a long time ago and may misremember them. But maybe what matters is not what Plato thought, but what is actually the case…
My dim recollection is that Plato’s Forms/Ideals were not meant to be understood as functions. That came in more with Aristotle? For Plato, a cup is a cup because it has cupness, not because it holds wine.
If a non-cup holds wine, and you use it as a cup, it’s not a cup, and you are probably a pervert. My friend Beth Preston did a lot of work to sort this out: https://amzn.to/2GdQve2
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