TLS signed “Love, Phil,” adding a heart with arrow, three pages, 8.5 x 11, February 13, 1981. Lengthy philosophical letter to science fiction author Patricia Warrick, in part: "I would like to discuss the universals and what it means to become aware of them (because of Platonic anamnesis). There are several aspects that I have all this time overlooked. First, the universals themselves, as Plato envisioned them, have two aspects. We as percipients can order reality by means of universals, which are constants within a flux, and in addition these universals or Forms exist in themselves, independent of our use of them as an ordering—hypostatizing—category; thus my Encyclopedia of Philosophy says, '…the doctrine is thus not merely a logical but a metaphysical doctrine.' This is critically important, and I did not understand this dual role that Forms universals (Forms) he is not imposing categories on the data that are adventitious to the data; thus he does not falsify in the pursuit of organization (this is the criticism of ordering by means of space, time and causation; it is possible that these are only categories of ordering by the percipient and do not exist in reality-in-itself. Thus, if this is the case, such categories essentially falsify the data that is received, and yet this is necessary if there is to be some coherence established. So for Plato, the universalis (Forms) are not merely a way of looking at reality, a way of arranging it and structuring it, but, rather, are a way that is congruent with the essential nature (einai) of that reality itself. In the sense that Wittgenstein speaks of, then, the inner analog or picture of reality is that the percipient possesses is congruent with the reality itself—if the Forms are used and if Plato is right. What Plato is saying is that despite the fact that out percept-systems report the flux world that Heraclitus speaks of, in actual fact the only true reality out there consists of the eternal Forms, and we are not seeing reality until we apperceive these Forms." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
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