David on Plato
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“[A] eugenist does not have to be a Darwinian. Plato, for example, was a eugenist thousands of years before Darwinism was thought of.”
“Plato's discovery went as follows.
It is possible for something to be a certain way and for something else to be the same way.
So
There are universals.
(Tumultuous applause, which lasts, despite occasional subsidences, 2,400 years.)[…]
'Universals' is simply the name philosophers give to the ways in which two or more things can be the same.”