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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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
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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Replying to @nastyinmuhtaxi
Plato's forms are said to exist in a "more real" realm beyond perception.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
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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Replying to @nastyinmuhtaxi
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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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
>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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Replying to @nastyinmuhtaxi
Im not in the mood. You wanted to tell me something- it was nothing.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
While you're not in the mood, why not use that time away from twitter, to actually read some Plato? It seems like your second-hand knowledge failed you this time.
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Replying to @nastyinmuhtaxi
Why don't you actually read McLuhan? I've read Plato. Aristophanes, Homer, Virgil, Ovid etc stick with me more.
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You haven't read any of those, and if you did, you dragged your eyes across the pages like a ruminant across the grass.
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