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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Of course, Plato didn't have access to our scientific bag of tools. His only tool to understand reality was his mind, and the minds of people around him. This is true of all his contemporaries. But they at least tried to work with their perceptions and build theories around them, although many of these perceptions and theories were incorrect. But not Plato. Facts were too low for his notice. He was above facts, he only dealt with ideals. His conclusions may not be any worse than those of other philosophers of his time, but his approach was all wrong.
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But isn't quantum physics showing that science can't pin down reality; and what scientists believe exists has very little relationship to what we perceive?
E.g. the keyboard I'm typing this on is largely nothingness, with only a tiny amount of matter - I don't perceive it that way at all.
Also, Einstein's famous thought experiments seem like a similar process to Plato's ponderings - products of a mind rather than perception.