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On the Platonic forms in Posterior Analytics by Aristotle, in an edition by
The text reads:
- "The Forms may be dismissed -- they are mere prattle1; and even if they exist, they are irrelevant, because demonstrations are concerned only with such predicates as we have described."
- 1 "In view of Aristotle's debt to the Platonic Forms, it is ungenerous of him to describe the theory by a word which in Greek suggests the twittering of birds or a person's aimless humming." --Hugh Tredennick
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