Reading Book X these days

mu

I'm preparing for a test, and this chapter puzzled me most.

But there are only two ideas or forms of them --one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.
True.
And the maker of either of them makes a bed or he makes a table for our use, in accordance with the idea --that is our way of speaking in this and similar instances --but no artificer makes the ideas themselves: how could he?
Impossible.

There's a problem: What's the sameness between an artificer, a imitator and a maker of all the works of all other workmen?

怀抱花朵的孩子

I think you should read sth about Plato, the problem you've gave is just one of the basic concepts Plato discussed.

kokho

Flower child's reply has shown that both are deep thinkers.