Plato (c.427–347 bc) Greek philosopher.
Traditionally the core of Plato’s metaphy-sics has been taken to be the thesis that there exists a realm of non-perceptible objects, called Forms (eide) or Ideas (Ideai), which are the only strictly real things and the subject matter of all knowledge, and that perceptible objects are in some sense copies of these Forms, less strictly real than they are,and incapable of being known. As an approximation this interpretation is correct. Only with a much clearer account, how-ever, does Plato’s view appear as more than a vulgar caricature of a philosophical metaphysics…
This article is about Plato’s ideas about metaphysics, which was translated into Persian by Sedigheh Bayat.
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