Under this new concept we do not have to make up another world without sufficient evidence to support that it exists. Plato believed that a world of forms existed and that the reason people can see two different, unique objects both as chairs is because they are both attempts to replicate the form of chair. I think it is because humans have the ability to reason and look at the shape of the objects and see that they are most likely to function as chairs. I believe that without humans, a flat piece of wood with four legs and a back would just be pieces of wood, and that its our ability to comprehend the function of the materials that makes it a chair. Overall I think there is some valid points to Plato's world of forms but I don't think he has fully captured the truth.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Another interpretation for Plato's Metaphysics
Plato believes in the world of perfect forms, and that everything that we see is actually just an attempt to copy one of these forms. What if we change out the idea of the world of forms with Humans ability to comprehend these objects like in the example below.

Under this new concept we do not have to make up another world without sufficient evidence to support that it exists. Plato believed that a world of forms existed and that the reason people can see two different, unique objects both as chairs is because they are both attempts to replicate the form of chair. I think it is because humans have the ability to reason and look at the shape of the objects and see that they are most likely to function as chairs. I believe that without humans, a flat piece of wood with four legs and a back would just be pieces of wood, and that its our ability to comprehend the function of the materials that makes it a chair. Overall I think there is some valid points to Plato's world of forms but I don't think he has fully captured the truth.
Under this new concept we do not have to make up another world without sufficient evidence to support that it exists. Plato believed that a world of forms existed and that the reason people can see two different, unique objects both as chairs is because they are both attempts to replicate the form of chair. I think it is because humans have the ability to reason and look at the shape of the objects and see that they are most likely to function as chairs. I believe that without humans, a flat piece of wood with four legs and a back would just be pieces of wood, and that its our ability to comprehend the function of the materials that makes it a chair. Overall I think there is some valid points to Plato's world of forms but I don't think he has fully captured the truth.
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