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Expain Plato's Theory of the Formes in a way that won't make my brain melt.

Pic unrelated, but enjoy.

>> No.1165899

Fucking Hasselhoff.

>> No.1165902

Assuming I understood it correctly, Plato thought of words as descriptive of metaphysical ideals. When you say "house", you are not describing the house you're pointing to directly, but rather the idea of perfect "houseness". That house might have an extra garage, or a window in the wrong place, so all it does is approach the form of "house", acting as an imperfect shadow of its true nature. Plato believed in the existence of a metaphysical world to which all objects in the physical world aspired to conform, called the world of forms, containing a perfect house, a perfect chair, a perfect joy and so forth.

I don't believe that he thought of the world of forms in the physical "there is a dimension somewhere where you could find, enter, and touch the perfect house" sense, but I suppose it's possible that he did.

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>>1165902

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OP, I think it's all pretty obviously explained in this comic.