- everything is made from a perfect, abstract ideal, and its concrete implementations
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or: when I say "chair" to you, what am I referring to? A specific one? Probably not... Anything shair-shaped? No... Anything you can sit on? No...
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from Plato
or: when I say "chair" to you, what am I referring to? A specific one? Probably not... Anything shair-shaped? No... Anything you can sit on? No...
from Plato