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2016-11-21 NSPRM Parmenides plg 130e,131a,132d-e,133a-c - That's What He Calls Ideas

Dialogue(s): parmenides Chapters: plg Sections: 130e,131a,132d-e,133a-c Attendees: Pierre, Barbara, Regina, Nancy, Bradley, Josh, JeffS the difficulty with participation: - things to ideas has a problem - ideas to things has a problem - thus sharing (symmetric) is problematic why did he not develop further the problems involved with ideas --> things, and instead go on to the problems involved with things --> ideas ? experience vs inference infer: Beauty, Goodness, Fairness, Justice, Truth: That's what he calls Ideas . Are Ideas Separate, then? (No!) (133a) "Do you see then, O Socrates, how great a doubt arises, if any one defines/delimits/separates The Ideas, as Being Selves according to Selves?" PG: That means you must have carried along with you through this discussion the idea of Self (1:13:08) Because now he's pulling it in. So he wants Socrates to go back to what was formerly said about the idea of the Selves and go along with the conclusion, combined with this one. And that's rather clever, isn't it? This latest conclusion then may be used to cast doubt on those previous conclusions! So we have to go back and collect all the statements about the Self to see whether or not it

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