Talk:Theory of forms
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Progress Report[edit]
Hi, I am making good progress and hope to finish in some weeks: harder than I thought! JohnD'Alembert (talk) 10:39, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Request for clarification on "theory of Ideas" / Ideentheorie[edit]
The second paragraph of the opening statement concludes with: "This transliteration and the translation tradition of German and Latin lead to the expression "theory of Ideas." The word is however not the English "idea," which is a mental concept only." The German expression for "theory of Ideas" is Ideentheorie and I do not know of a difference in meaning expressed in the German word "Idee" vs. the English "idea" (To me they both describe a mental concept only).
Can someone clarify, what difference in meaning are we talking about here? Erwin Flaming (talk) 06:57, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
Requested move 29 July 2017[edit]
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The result of the move request was: Moved to Theory of forms. No such user (talk) 09:52, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
Theory of Forms → Theory of forms – Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony (talk) 05:30, 29 July 2017 (UTC)--Relisting. DrStrauss talk 19:04, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Google's ngram search shows about equal hits for lowercase and capped, which means that by our guidelines we go lowercase. The search did not even exclude title case instances in books. Tony (talk) 05:30, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
- Comment: the article seems to capitalise "Form" throughout; if the article is moved to Theory of forms then that should probably be changed... Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 08:30, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
- And it looks like this page was moved from Theory of forms to Theory of Forms in 2008 per this discussion on the grounds that the title was a proper noun. I am unconvinced that it is, though. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 08:34, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
- Support – In addition to the ngrams that Tony showed, often "Forms" is capped when "theory" is not, but it's hard to see how that could a proper name, nor the full title. The lowercase "theory of forms" is quite common, so go with WP style default. Dicklyon (talk) 05:51, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
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Requested move 28 April 2024[edit]
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Theory of forms → Theory of Forms – I'd like to reopen this discussion. The lead for the last few years has hinged on capitalization to show that the word "Form" here is being used in a technical philosophical way rather than in the everyday use of the English word "form". Although not all scholarly sources follow this convention, plenty do, and it's common to even find sources explicitly making special note of this capitalization. Examples of such sources include: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. Wolfdog (talk) 15:22, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- MOS:CAPS says that we should capitalize a term only if it's "consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources". Because it's not clear from your nomination statement, I want to ask, are you contending that that is the case here? Or is this more of a WP:IAR kind of thing? Colin M (talk) 16:05, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'm no expert, but, for a cursory response to your question, I typed
"theory of forms" plato "forms are"
into Google Scholar (it may seem a strange string of words, but I wanted both "theory of forms" to nail down the specific topic as a whole as well as to see "forms" by itself in at least one sentence). Of the first 30 results, 22 show consistent capitalization; of the first 40 results, 31 show it; and perhaps we can extrapolate from there. (There may be repeat sources.) Wolfdog (talk) 16:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'm no expert, but, for a cursory response to your question, I typed
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