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Eduncle posted an MCQ
February 29, 2020 • 22:44 pm 0 points
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Following Plato, which two of the following statements about 'Phantasm' and 'Semblance' are correct?

(a)    'Phantasm' is an image, while 'Semblance' is the real object.
(b)    'Phantasm' is the real object while 'Semblance' is only a resemblance. 
(c)    Phantasm unlike semblance has the same proportions as the object. 
(d)    Semblance is 'unreal' but looks 'real' as compared to phantasm.
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    In the Republic Socrates says that painting (as well as tragedy) is an imitation of a phantasm or appearance as it appears rather than an imitation of reality or truth and here he is clearly drawing on the distinction made in the Sophists between the image of likeness that resembles the original it imitates and the semblance (phantasma) that only mimics its model without bearing any true resemblance. Plato's signs are of two sorts, images and simulacra (phantasm and semblance), both are governed by mimesis. 

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