PHL 551 Lecture : Lecture 5
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What is a form? (ideal) essence of x. Essence of whatever you are talking about. Sensible world = is imitations of the essences. Knowing = reflections general in nature vs. specific definition. Specific definition, we only count on the things we know as specific than general. Any characterises shared by a group of objects implies that the characteristics is prior any of the individual objects. Ancient greek"s were always interested in specific than general, they believed specific was knowledge. Idea of wisdom vs. intelligence intelligence is knowledge, you would be considered intelligent if you can write a computer program for people, you would not be considered intelligent if you. The world of philosophy means love of wisdom. Example: apple is red, red is the predication but it means in philosophy that it contains something that contains something etcit can keep going on and gets very confusing. It is hard to define the word meaning : meaning means same meaning.