The Importance of Forms

The forms in Plato reconciled the one in the mini as we just saw, and they become a ground for knowledge in an epistemic sense. This is not a perfect unity because we're still distance from we're still lower on that pyramid on that chain of being which we'll see in a minute. So again, this is from Pythagoras. The forms are ideal in that they are not purely in the physical realm. They are not identified with physical things or physical objects or what he calls sense particulars. In fact, the forms exist transcendently as self subsisting causes of the world.