GRGR(4) Whappo

[Doug Millison]

from an earlier GRGR(4) post I made:
The "one of each thing" seems to carry some heavy philosophical freight
which I'm not equipped to unpack. I have read a bit of Plato, enough to
wonder if TRP might be playing with P's ideas of Forms, or with some later
response to Plato:
"The theory of Forms has as its foundation the assumption that
beyond the world of physical things there is a higher, spiritual realm of
Forms, or Ideas, such as the Form of Beauty or Justice. This realm of
Forms, moreover, has a hierarchical order, the highest level being that of
the Form of the Good. Whereas the physical world, perceived with the
senses, is in constant flux and knowledge derived from it restricted and
variable, the realm of Forms, apprehensible only by the mind, is eternal
and changeless. Each Form is the pattern of a particular category of
things in this world; thus there are Forms of man, stone, shape, colour,
beauty, and justice. Yet the things of this world are only imperfect copies
of these perfect Forms."
--Plato" Encyclopædia Britannica Online
<http://www.members.eb.com/bol/topic?eu=115123&sctn=9>
[Accessed June 15, 1999].


At 9:58 PM +0100 6/27/99, JL wrote:
>That name sounds like some character in Plato's
>Dialogues, but as usual my knowledge is too shallow
>to make anything of it.  I remember something of
>the concept of 'Forms' as defining characteristics;
>and that Wittgenstein took the idea further (???).
>Does the Crouchfield idea of One-ness follow from
>this?  A-and if not, whence?
>Direct me to the archives if this has been covered.
>
>JL
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> she said she wasn't interested in that kind of
> drawing... but had always liked horses.  I said
> I did too, but they are hard to draw.  She said
> yes that was very true... said she could do the
> body okay, but never get the head, tail or legs.
> I told her she was drawing sausages... not horses.
> She said no... they were horses.
>					( - terry allen )
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