Plato and the Theory of Forms

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Plato and the Theory of Forms

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When you are not the sharpest tool in the shed, you actually believe such non-sense as the claim that Plato developed a Theory of Forms. And, you even believe the mythologies of those who claim to be an authority on Plato who can tell you all about that theory.

And people get away with this bull shit because those who want to learn about theories, and stories, are like children too stupid to study and read the truth of the matter. Right in Aristotle, he will tell you that the form is the definition. And, both Plato and Aristotle tell you, definition is part of a convention by which we name our only two possible abstractions, or our inductions, i.e. how we turn perceptions into names, thus converting the perceptible into the intelligible. There is no theory involved at all. There is no such thing as a theory of definition, as that would mean, as Aristotle pointed out, an infinite loop, what is called in programming, a NOP by defective programming.

I.e. the two parts of a thing, which we can physically abstract from any thing, is its form, or shape, or limit, and the material, material difference, relative, i.e. relative and correlative, a binary construct. All information processing is done by how well a mind can use, "A Standard Of Behavior" which also means binary processing. Standard is to correlative as behavior is to relative.

The functional relationship between body and mind is the body reads data, called experience, the mind processes those experience in order to make the best response and this response is written back to the body as human behavior.

And it is a fact that most people are too dim witted to see the simplicity of it, and whose mind spins its wheels with yarns, mythologies, mysticism, doctrines and theories, all of these simply the signs of the stupidity of the simple minded.

Plato taught dialectic, what every true grammar teacher would teach, how binary is used to process all information. And, both Plato and Aristotle warn you, if you do not have the experience but only the names, your brain is performing a NOP, is only capable of a NOP, and you are delusional.

Words, in of themselves, have no meaning. Memory is the only meaning you will ever have and the intelligence to manage that memory is the only possibility one has of not living the life of a fool.


If a relative does not reside in your memory, you cannot possibly, with a name, construct any thing called understanding with it.

The Dialogs of Plato are grammar lessons from one of histories greatest grammar teachers. If you cannot learn from his work, it is because you are too simple minded to learn.
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