Plato

1047.859 - 1090.538 R.C. Sproul

And so whenever we see a particular street or a particular tree or a particular man such as Plato, we can recognize them insofar as they approximate the idea of humanness, tree-ness, chair-ness, street-ness, or whatever it is. Now Plato says the reason that is, is that in this spiritual realm, there is the eternal perfect idea of tree. There is the perfect eternal idea of chair.