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Lesley Brown’s chapter ‘Do Forms Play the Role of Concepts in Late Plato?’ starts by noting a major issue of controversy concerning the Forms in the Middle Dialogues, namely whether Forms are explanatory properties whose role is to account for why things are the way they are and are therefore the objects of philosophical inquiry and knowledge, or whether Forms are concepts whose role is to explain everyday thinking and discourse. On the assumption that the former option best captures the role of Forms in Plato’s so-called Middle Dialogues, Brown addresses the question whether Plato’s later dialogues manifest a shift in emphasis such that the latter interpretation gains greater prominence. In her view, even though Plato’s later dialogues show increasing interest in matters of language and meaning, and hence may perhaps be taken to show a somewhat greater interest in the role Forms or Kinds play in our everyday thinking and discourse, nonetheless the prominence of the method of division in these works underscores that the Forms are primarily properties discoverable by philosophical inquiry, not everyday concepts or meanings.
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