
HoP 028 - Fiona Leigh on Plato's Sophist
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is There a Form of Difference?
Sophist says forms are the embodiment of properties. But why do i need to think about forms sharing in or participating in one another? So you might want to, eh, if youre plato, consider forms as things that have properties on their own. The five greatest kinds in the sophist anyway, all share in the form of sameness. So they're all the same as themselves. They're all self identical,. and all different from other forms, whih so they'll share in difference. There's a there’s passages which suggest that all forms share in being rest but no forms are said to share in motion. Explicitly under vain this implication is that all
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