COGNITIVE DISSONANTICS

Plato invented “ideal forms” because reality kept disappointing him.

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Plato's theory of Forms proposes that abstract ideals exist beyond the physical world. It was a metaphysical and epistemological theory, not a reaction to disappointment.

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