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Understanding the Forms

Understanding the Forms

  • Forms: Perfect, unchanging ideas or patterns that exist in a non-physical realm.
  • Particulars: Imperfect, physical copies that exist in our world.
  • Knowledge: Understanding the Forms gives us true knowledge.

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