ει22Εἰδέα
idea, form, aspect, figure
Plato makes use of different names with the same meaning. At any rate he names an idea 'form', 'genus', 'paradigm', 'principle', 'cause', [this form being] neither liable to change nor remaining [the same], and it is…
Εἰδέα· ὅτι Πλάτων διαφόροις ὀνόμασιν ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ σημαινομένου χρῆται. τὴν γοῦν εἰδέαν εἶδος ὀνομάζει καὶ γένος καὶ παράδειγμα καὶ ἀρχὴν καὶ αἴτιον καὶ οὔτε κινούμενον οὔτε μένον…
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