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Title: Seeing through the forms - towards a Platonic indirect realism
Authors: de Ray, Christophe
Keywords: Arts and Humanities
Issue Date: 2024
Source: de Ray, C. (2024). Seeing through the forms - towards a Platonic indirect realism. European Journal of Philosophy. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12989
Journal: European Journal of Philosophy
Abstract: Universals in the Platonic tradition were intended to play both metaphysical and epistemological roles. The contemporary debate around universals has focused overwhelmingly on the former, with even ‘platonists’ typically holding that our knowledge of universals is derived from our knowledge of particulars. In contrast, I wish to argue for the epistemological primacy of the universal: specifically, I defend the thesis that we perceive particulars as a result of knowing universals, and not the other way around. My argument draws from the work of Malebranche, who notoriously contended that we see ordinary objects through the immutable ‘ideas’. I conclude with the suggestion that the resulting account of the relationship between our knowledge of universals and our perception of particulars may be thought of as a kind of Platonic indirect realism.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/180783
ISSN: 0966-8373
DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12989
Schools: School of Humanities 
Rights: © 2024 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. All rights reserved.
Fulltext Permission: none
Fulltext Availability: No Fulltext
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