post-post-modernist

with all my theories (i have a tie somewhere that could probably match some of them) i appear to have resolved an issue regarding plato vs. aristotle: there's no argument.

the only thing that plato is missing in his concept of the universe is that while outside of his universe there exist all the ideas that will form his reality, it is only a buffer zone: beyond that, the original stimuli provided by the physical world.

as our world maps on to the real one, this is impossible to conceptualize without our layers of meaning... these are our chains, we cannot escape them.

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these chains are what make aristotle's view of "it all being real" totally accurate.

so plato's focus is on the universal, factual world - aristotle's on the personal, meaningful one. they're both right.