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The Existence of Forms: Plato's Argument from the Possibility of Knowledge
In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 102–105 (2011)
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the existence of Forms, Plato's argument from possibility of knowledge existence of Forms, at the heart of Plato's philosophy “argument from the possibility of knowledge” Socrates, and love of wisdom, love of genuine knowledge Knowledge, not the source of the existence of Forms knowing something, to know something that does not change Plato's Republic, same argument in more explicit form Knowledge being possible
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