According to Platos idea of forms, everything that can be seen is nothing but an illusion, a cheap representation of the abstract idea of the category that thing falls into. For example, the category of horses. If the idea of horses, or the form of horses, is independent from actual physical horses, couldn't the form of horses exist without any physical manifestation of horses. Even though there are no physical manifestations of unicorns, couldn't the form of a unicorn still exist? After all, everyone has a concept of what a unicorn is. Isn't it possible for imagined objects an creatures to exist as forms?
I think Plato would disagree, under the principle that imagined things originate in the mind. But I would argue that it's impossible for forms to exist independently from our minds as Plato believed. If their was no one to understand or comprehend the idea of forms, would they still exist?
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