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Platos Forms
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Plato suggested that the Forms are the most real of all things. Our perception and knowledge change, but the Forms (objects of our knowledge) are stable. During one of Plato’s late dialogues, called Parmenides, a problem to the theory of the Forms arises. This problem is referred to as the Third Man argument. The previously unnoticed argument exposes a threat to Plato’s philosophy of the Forms similar to Anaximander’s argument against Thales.
Thales claimed that water is the common element in all things real and water is the source of all things. Of course this leads to asking, what is the source of water? Anaximander attempted to solve this riddle with the argument for the Boundless. Anaximander thought that for any given thing there is
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