Aristotle's Chair Maker

Aristotle: To know something is to possess the same idos as it. Think of it like an architect that has a blue print, he says. When i know some object or know some thing, my mind takes on the same structural, functional organization as the thing,. So if i could take that idos from my mind and actualize it in some potential, i could make an instance of the thing, i could cause it to be.

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