I will be responding to Corbin Brassard's post titled "Another Interpretation for Plato's Metaphysics".
I too agree that Plato may have formulated his Theory of Forms from a genuine quest to understand the knowledge of objects/ideas/etc that transcends ages using a valid system that could be easily understood. He falters, however, by removing the aspect of human understanding that is associated with recognition and recall. Corbin states " its our ability to comprehend the function of the materials that makes
it a chair. " Comprehending function is pivotal in giving credit to presence and purpose of any object or thing. There are copious amounts of undiscovered inanimate and living matter that seem to contradict Plato's theory of forms. We will undoubtedly categorize these presently unknown things upon discovery by classification of function and purpose.
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