>The argument is pretty simple - if there is a "platonic mathematics", we cannot have any direct experience of it. Aside, but this is also Aristotle's exact ar

>The argument is pretty simple - if there is a "platonic mathematics", we cannot have any direct experience of it. Aside, but this is also Aristotle's exact argument against Platonism in general, though when he makes it in the Nichomachean Ethics he is specifically talking about ethical Good (if the definition/actual taking place of the Good lies in some other plane, we can't participate in it so no one is or can be good), but the idea is the same even when he's talking about what a soul is in De Anima. Aristotle doesn't believe in 'souls' in the way we think of them as religio-spiritual entities that exceed the capacity of the body; a 'soul' for Aristotle is the body but in a way that radically challenges the idea of a body as mere shell or vessel - soul is what any form of life repeats doing, as a body, in order to continue being itself. It should be noted that a lot of time at Aristotle's Academy was spent in Zoology, studying animals and their anatomy.