Note 6 — DIVISION A—NORMATIVE SCIENCE (continued 6)

According to Plato, it is true, the ideas are separated from the sensible things; they must be thought in a conceptual place, for the space of sense perception is to be understood as non-being, matter. The things revealed to sense, however, occupy a middle position between being and non-being, so that they partake of the ideas. In this sense, the statement made above holds also of the older view of the concept philosophy.