I would suggest more respect for Plato, frankly. But I don't think that is right. He argued that matter existed in a relation of participation in the forms, th

I would suggest more respect for Plato, frankly. But I don't think that is right. He argued that matter existed in a relation of participation in the forms, that making such things like shadows or approximations of ideas. Aristotle deployed the third man argument to attack this notion. Plato conceded his view was problematic.