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Abstract

Abstract Cornford translates sentence S thus: ‘Any discourse we can have owes its existence to the weaving together of Forms.’ In his commentary he writes: ‘All discourse depends on the “weaving together of Forms.” ... It is not meant that Forms are the only elements in the meaning of all discourse. We can also make statements about individual things. But it is true that every such statement must contain at least one Form.’ A few lines later Cornford says that the point made by Plato in S is ‘that every statement or judgement involves the use of at least one Form’; and later he remarks that Plato ‘has said that “all discourse depends on the weaving together of Forms,” i.e. at least one Form enters into the meaning of any statement’ (p. 314).