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Jackson6612 Posted 18 years ago
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1: apprehension of a Platonic idea as if...

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0understanding/grasping an idea/concept as if you know it from a previous life (you had)0-

— Marius Hancu

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0understanding/grasping an idea/concept as if you know it from a previous life (you had)0-
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0 Hi Marius,02br
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00But what is a Platonic idea? 0-
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0Have you done your search at Wikipedia? 0-
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0 Yes, but couldn't really get the meaning of 01i00Platonic idea02i00. 0-
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0 Well, you haven't looked in enough Encyclopedias. This is something which should be clear to you: 02br
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00Plato's method was the dialectic method as exemplified in the Socratic02br
00 dialogues. Its main doctrine is that 01b00the02b00 01b00objects of our thoughts02br
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