
HoP 027 - Second Thoughts - Plato's Parmenides and the Forms
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Greatest Disappointment for the Theory of Forms
Parmenides points out that socrates wanted the forms to be objects of our knowledge. But knowledge is a connection or a relation, just like mastery or slavery. So if nothing in our world can relate to the world of the forms, then we can't have knowledge of the forms. This greatest difficulty ends the battery of objections against the theory of forms.
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