PHL 504 Lecture 3: week 3 continued aristotle:socrates
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Despite the difference in apperance the thing itself doesn"t change . This looks different, ways of appearing it has. But it is still the same table. It was painted by a particular distance away, imagine if she was 6ft back, or the top of the lids. Fundamental uni ed reality, just different ways of looking at it. Thats all the painter could ever get at, the painter can only capture one appearance at any given occasion ** Towards which is painting directed in each case- imitation of being or how it looks? . Traingle example: all angles add up to 180 degress, one triangle there is just the essence of triangle. Traingle example (three enclosed shape gure), theres no number of triangles visually that will represent what a triangle is, it is what it is made up of. Once you get the concept you can possess it. But you cant get it through your eyes.