of Diogenes of Sinope, who said "I've seen Plato's cups and table, but not his 'cupness' and 'tableness'."

Aristotle

Plato's student Aristotle disagreed with his tutor: Aristotle transformed Plato's forms into "formal causes", the blueprints or essences of individual things. Whereas Plato idealized geometry, Aristotle emphasized nature

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