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carboxyl · 3737 days ago · link · · parent · post: 8-Bit Philosophy - Philosophical works presented as retro video games
Your splitting hairs on the analogy. Plato's argument isn't "there could be a reality beyond our own", his argument is that there is an ultimate reality that is constant and directly influences our own. We know this because the world we experience changes. So like how the fire and sword effect what the shadow looks like, a higher reality is effecting everything we can experience. This takes the term "reality" pretty lightly, plato believed that the highest reality were mathematical proofs and laws.