Response to TA's question 01

"My question is, what about inventors? The person who came up with the couch, wheel, table, iPod? Does an "inventor" as such even exist?"

I don't think in Plato would think that the inventor of any such object was truly the "inventor."  On page 25, Plato wrote, "here we have three sorts of couches, of which one exists in nature, and this we shall attribute...to the workmanship of god." He might argue that the concept of couch has always existed, regardless of whether the human mind thought of it or not. God, as many see it, is the creator of all and is all-knowing. So, the first person who invented a wheel might be the first human who made one, but God originally created the concept of the wheel - its true form - and any other wheel is an imitation of it. We can therefore argue that the idea of the iPod has always existed, along with the wheel, table, and every other object in existence. This also implies that there are a seemingly infinite amount of things that exist, but we do not know about them, at least yet.