originally posted by Michael Lewis:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Michael Lewis:
I am going to go further. It is the Platonic form of rose.
I finally sat down with an entire bottle of this. Holy crap, is it good.
In addition, I think that this is a perfectly acceptable use of form in Plato's sense, although I suppose the form itself never has a material instantiation.
I gave some further thought to my use of the Platonic form in this context. And I have concluded that the wine is so perfect as to be a material instantiation of the Platonic form, notwithstanding the traditional understanding that the Platonic form cannot have a material instantiation. Put differently, it is so great that it warped the philosophical universe. Maybe the actual universe too. Mind: blown.
I now understand what Parker means when he says "100 points!" He was talking about Platonic forms the whole time and I just didn't know.
