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What Does Plato Mean by Ideas?

What Does Plato Mean by Ideas?

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What is Plato's take on I

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Plato held that the physical world is an imperfect representation of a perfect, non-physical world of Forms or Ideas in his philosophy. He believed that these Forms or Ideas, such as Justice, Equality, and Beauty, exist apart from the physical world and are the true reality. According to…

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