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What did Plato mean by \"form.\"

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According to Plato, a form is an abstract property or quality. Take any property of an object, separate it from the object and consdier it by itself, and you are contemplating a form.

For example; if you separate the roundness of a basket ball from its colour and weight etc., and just consider roundness by itself, you are thinking of the form of roundness. Plato held that this property existed apart from the basket ball in a different mode of existence than the basket ball, the form is not just an idea of roundness you have in your mind. It exits independently of the basketball and independently of someone thinks of it.

The forms are transcendent. This means that they do not exist in space and time. like in the previous example of basket ball, the form roundness does not exist at any place or time. It will never change.

The forms are pure. it means they are pure properties separated from all the other properties. A material object, such as a basketball, has many properties: roundness, ballness, orangeness, elasticity, etc. These are all put together to make up this individual basketball.