The Permanence of Plato's Forms

    The difficulty with Plato's philosophy is that the Forms cannot be experienced in the traditional sense of reality, for reality is always changing while the Forms are permanent. They can only be deduced mathematically, or by logic, which are mere abstractions prone to paradoxes and fallacies. I have no doubt the architecture of the universe consists of Forms, but they are not recognizable in our four-dimensional minds. I must add that opinion is more contingent with knowledge than he realizes, for the world of appearances is governed by the present. If something appears moral, just, or beautiful, it does in that moment and nothing else. No state of permanence is necessary because the state of the universe is always changing, deeming it impermanent. All that is permanent is the present, which deceptively moves through time in paradoxical form. The present is all we need, and as its appearances change, so does our knowledge. Nowhere is it written that knowledge is permanent or eternal. All is chaos, forever trying to maintain order but usually failing. Life is the only non-chaotic form, resisting entropy for as long as it can. The reason we find Forms in hidden nuggets of the universe is because it is alive, like we are