On Epistemic Contextualism and the Relationship Between Being and Form

19 October 2022, Version 1
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Abstract

Heraclitus' philosophy states that all things are in a state of becoming and implies that nature is the source of knowledge. While this theory is true for explaining the natural processes on Earth, it cannot show why the mind is not an inanimate object. The forms are rational objects that exist as processes because they unfold through the relationship of thought to time. Knowing does not only apply to space in this way since dreaming is external to the laws of physics. Saying "I know" means "I am certain" in contexts containing processes the agent observes. Cartesianism turned "reality" systems into "concepts" that contained possibility. For instance, "I know that I exist " must be confident on the grounds of being. The definition of a form manifests in the logic of its existence.

Keywords

Metaphysics
Epistemology
Plato

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