Original sentence: Plato (427–347 BC) was also inflat humans (but particularly philosophers) can come to know by reason, and by ignoring the distractions of sense-perception
Edited sentence: But the characteristic of essences is that they are universal.Plato (427–347 BC) was also influenced by Parmenides, but combined rationalism with a form of realism.Plato argued that these essences are mind-independent 'forms', that humans (but particularly philosophers) can come to know by reason, and by ignoring the distractions of sense-perception.The nature of a man, a triangle, a tree, applies to all men, all triangles, all trees.The philosopher's work is to consider being, and the essence (ousia) of things