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Quotation from Parmenides by Plato
“In my opinion, the ideas are, as it were, patterns fixed in nature, and other things are like them, and resemblances of them”
Parmenides, Stephanus 132d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates' third attempt to explain participation, as likeness to a model; Parmenides shows that it too generates an endless regress.
Citation: "In my opinion, the ideas are, as it were, patterns fixed in nature, and other things are like them, and resemblances of them" — Plato, Parmenides, Stephanus 132d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-parmenides-q4)
