The Geometry Of Winter

Like everyone else I know, when winter comes I think of Plato’s theory of ideal forms.
 If I say circle or square, you know what I mean, though in some sense you have never seen a circle—the shape in the plane where all the points are exactly equidistant from the center—because in reality everything is always at least a little off. Plato thought truth ought to work this way, that what we understand as truth is always an approximation to an ideal form.
 Winter is the Platonist’s season. 

 By Gregory Buck/continue reading