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And Ideas/Forms existing separately from their physical incarnations, which means existing prior to time and space, enables Ideas/Forms to be multiply instantiated across time and space. The same sort of thing can exist here and exist there, exist now and exist then, in its physical incarnation. Yet its Idea/Form -- its abstract, eternal prototype prior to the physical world of time and space -- is singular.
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>Plato wrote that Ideas (notions/concepts) existed separately to their physical incarnation, that's how we could make what today are called type/token distinctions.
>Aristotle was more interested in the incarnation of an Idea in its corporeal form.
And Ideas/Forms existing separately from their physical incarnations, which means existing prior to time and space, enables Ideas/Forms to be multiply instantiated across time and space. The same sort of thing can exist here and exist there, exist now and exist then, in its physical incarnation. Yet its Idea/Form -- its abstract, eternal prototype prior to the physical world of time and space -- is singular.
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>Plato wrote that Ideas (notions/concepts) existed separately to their physical incarnation, that's how we could make what today are called type/token distinctions.
>Aristotle was more interested in the incarnation of an Idea in its corporeal form.
