PHIL 230 Lecture 7: Philosophy 230 W4D1 Lecutre 7
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How can someone know what equality is having never seen something perfectly equal: how do we know necessary truths just by thinking. There are somethings that the brain can understand w/o actually experiencing: your sense trigger your memory. Forms: invisible, non-spatial, non-temporal, eternal, uniform, perfect and unchanging, patterns, models, blueprints of all particular things that are sensible, we get forms through pure thought. You are reminded" of these forms: not through the senses. Tuesday, january 31, 2017 knowledge mentally grasping relations among. Things with bodies unreal/imperfect imaging/imagining icons, representations of something. A horse would be things with body, but horse hood would be the forms. Circularity is a form: any drawn circle is a thing with a body, forms are not in time and space. To the north or to the south are relations. Mathematical objects- perfect objects such as squares and circles can be conceived of ad thought about without perceiving any of them with out senses.
