In the same way that Marx was mindfucked by electricity, Plato was mindfucked by the written phonetic alphabet.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
Once you realize that Platonic forms are just the conception of words as such, you can see Plato fumbling to instantiate them in reality.
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Replying to @NoTrueScotist
Plato writes Republic after Socrates trolls him about who should govern "Why, you, the philosopher xD"; he fails in Syracuse, thus The Law
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus @NoTrueScotist
Aristotle took the good parts of the platonic method & btfo the rest.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus @NoTrueScotist
This is a disappointing understanding of the Pythagorean ideals that underly the Platonic forms. Math > Language > Sensation > "Reality"
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Replying to @djinnius @NoTrueScotist
Euclidean space made Pythagoras possible.
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Key insight was, in fact, relation between pentatonic scale and ratios. weights hung from catgut. Best known *now* for eponymous theorem.
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