Aristotle's nous is the great intuition we all use that derives from our ability to reason. Not only can we group animals by their similarities, deriving knowledge in the process, but we do this in a number of different ways, every day of our lives. Patterns surround us, which obviously aren't always material. How many times does one see a pattern in someone's behavior, or in the cycles of the business, grouping all our experiences into snug little categories that hold up our worldview? One may mistakenly think they are psychic, until an outlier inevitably comes along that dethrones their axiom that experiences have deemed true. Thus it stands that while the news allows us to know things as we gain experience, we cannot always be sure they are categorized correctly. Therefore Plato's Forms have more resemblance to truth than the nous, but it is through the nous that we find the Forms.
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