July 5, 2007

  • ART WARS continued:

    In defense of
     Plato’s realism

    (vs. sophists’ nominalism–
    see recent entries.)

    Plato cited geometry,
    notably in the Meno,
    in defense of his realism.
    Consideration of the
    Meno’s diamond figure
    leads to the following:

    The Eightfold Cube and its Inner Structure

    Click on image for details.

    As noted in an entry,

    Plato, Pegasus, and

    the Evening Star,

     linked to
    at the end of today’s
    previous entry,
    the “universals”
    of Platonic realism
    are exemplified by
    the hexagrams of
    the I Ching,
    which in turn are
    based on the seven
    trigrams above and
    on the eighth trigram,
    of all yin lines,
    not shown above:

    Trigram of K'un, the Receptive

    K’un
    The Receptive

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