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A five page paper which explains in basic terms some concepts of religion and philosophy such as the difference between Plato's forms and Aristotle's universals, Aquinas's doctrines and the impact of the scientific revolution on philosophy.
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in a realm which was independent of human thought, and Aristotle disputed this. For instance, the idea of size or colour can clearly be seen to exist in terms of
our sensory experience: we can see that a mountain is large, or that grass is green, for instance. However, the idea of largeness or greenness is an abstract idea, and
these can exist independently of particular mountains or grasses, or indeed any physical objects which have size or colour. We are aware that there is such a thing as green
without having to attribute the concept of the colour to any specific object. Plato stated that these abstract ideas, or forms, existed in their own separate spiritual realm and were
unchanging: they were not dependent on human thought for their existence. Largeness and greenness would still have an existence of their own even if there were no human beings to
think of them, or to put the concepts into words. To some extent,
Aristotle agreed with this, but he felt that Plato was making the issue unnecessarily complicated by adding this spiritual realm in which the abstract concepts existed. Aristotle accepted that colour,
for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form. Instead, even though it was an
abstract idea, it was to be found in all those individual objects which could be classified as green, such as grass, emeralds, leaves and so on.
The universals - largeness, greenness, softness, sharpness, etc - could only be experienced through the particulars - large objects,
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