Idiotic presumptions regarding how the mind works produce idiotic idealist concepts like "forms"

[nanikore]

The following is a much more practical description of how the mind works. It's how everyone experiences a "crow" or a "black crow" thus refers to their own experiences of one every time he or she utters the term, and not how the mind somehow gets in touch with a "universal crow form", a universal "black" or something dumb like that

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[unnamed525]

I think the best way to conceive of platonic forms is as potentials.

[nanikore]

Anything that is subject to definition strays from the whole point of ideals. "Defined forms" are just non-starters, and forms ARE subject to definition via experience...

Next time people talk about forms I'll just show 'em a photo of my car.