What are your thoughts on that quote? Do you think it's true, false, etc.? What do you make of it?
just curious.
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Strictly speaking it has to be false. True perfection must be truly perfect by definition.
But I think there is a possible interpretation that's meaningful, at least, if not true.
Plato (as well as many other philosophers) believed that there is a realm inhabited by perfect objects (Plato called them Forms or Ideals), which can be grasped by the mind but not perceived by the senses. The sensory objects, which we perceive in our everyday world, are never perfect. They are an imperfect version of the corresponding Ideal.
So when we say "this is a perfect apple" it's because it seems to resemble very closely the Ideal of Appleness. A physical apple "has to be imperfect" because it's part of the sensory world, not the plane of the Ideals.
You could say, then, that true perfection in this physical world has to be imperfect because real perfection exists only as an Ideal.
This may be a stretch, but it's the only way I know to make a sensible statement out of your phrase.
I find that quote kind of difficult to understand. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me and even if I try to wrap my head around some kind of deeper meaning, I get nothing. I seems neither true nor false to me, just confusing. Sorry.
i think that everyone has flaws and imperfections,
and that the perfect man/woman/thing's flaw/ imperfection is not having any.
that made no sense...
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