The Permanence of the World

The idea is that in sort of ordinary experience, right, things come into being and then perish in for a while they are what they are. Yet the things around us come to have that stability by means of what's referred to as participation. How participation works is a mystery. This is an issue for anybody who wants to believe in this dogmatic, separate realm notion of the forms. But if you're going to posit that, you need to come up with some account of the relationship between these two realms. And particularly between concrete individual instances of things, this dog here and the form of dogness or what have you.