Plato was indeed mindfucked by language- thinking words were "conceptual forms"
What do you mean by "Plato thought words were conceptual forms"? What do you mean by conceptual forms?
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He thought they existed "elsewhere"- the whole allegory of the cave & his distrust of minesis is a belief in the "realm of forms" (concepts) - literal nonentities.
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Are you sure the allegory of the cave is an allegory of his ontological propositions and not an allegory of his epistemological ones? And do you still insist that Plato thought that words were forms?
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Are you?
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Is this what you're gonna do? You had ten minutes to come up with a reply. Those are your affirmations, not mine: do you really hold them, yes or no? I'll not argue if you're not convinced of your own positions.
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Plato's forms are said to exist in a "more real" realm beyond perception.
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Also this was a yes or no question : do you believe that for Plato, "words are forms" and that they exist elsewhere in a "real of forms"?
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The world of objects "imitates" the forms for Plato. Words, when poetic, imitate objects- he is against this, & points to the "purer" realm
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>it doesn't >they don't and this isn't why he's against poetry >he's not and he doesn't Wikipedia will not help you on this one, seems like you're gonna have to actually engage with the text.
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