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...(philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
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I. A. Richards and the Philosophy of Rhetoric Ann Berthoff (1980) (pdf)Plato's Theory of Ideas, also known as the Theory of Forms, posits that the ultimate reality consists of immutable and timeless abstract entities called Forms or Ideas, which represent the true essence of things. According to Plato, the physical world is merely a shadow or imperfect reflection of these ideal Forms, which encompass not only mathematical principles but also moral and aesthetic ideals such as "the just," "the beautiful," and "the good." This framework emerged from earlier philosophical thoughts, particularly influenced by Socratic questioning about objective knowledge and by pre-Socratic philosophers like Parmenides and Heraclitus.
...Fortunately, I recently found a good method in Ann E. Berthoff's Forming/Thinking/Writing, which argues that a recursive practice of observing, defining, and thinking about thinking results in the emergence of an inevitable form, or, as she puts it "form finds form." To illustrate this, she provides an example of student-writers who wrote journal entries about a single object over the course of a week — everyday objects like a cucumber, a stone, a seed pod. Over the course of the week, initial writings that were predictable descriptions gave way to unexpected relationships with other common objects and experimentations in form. Through the process of defining and "thinking about thinking," the student writers moved from desultory perceptions to forming profound meaning about mundane objects.