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Plato never really had an explicit definition of the Forms. There is no set dialog where the
forms are laid out. Instead they are a running theme throughout the Republic. In this essay I
will try to decipher Plato's ‘theory of the forms' in reference to his cave allegory.
Plato first introduces the Forms in book 5 of the republic. Forms for Plato are what he
understood to be the reality behind each concept and object in the visible world. For example
if we look at a football we see that it is round has a certain colour weight ect. If we separate
one aspect of that from the object that is a form, so if we separate roundness form the colour
and weight of the ball we are thinking of the form of roundness. The form of roundness is
transcendent and will always be. Even if every football in the whole world was destroyed the
form of roundness would still exist because it exists outside space and time. The forms
themselves are pure and for Plato are the only true......

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