What philosopher's ideas are being described?He believed in the theory of "ideas" and "forms."
Elements in the physical world—a desk, a man, a dog—are imperfections of shadows of the eternal, perfect ideas of a desk, a man, a dog.
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates

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Answer 1
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The correct answer is Plato.

Plato was a philosopher in classical Greece. He was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. He was also the founder of the Academy in Athens.

One of his most influential contribution to philosophy was His Theory of forms. He considered that the material world as it seems to us is not the 'real' world but an 'image' of the real world.

Besides, he referred to the allegory of the cave. It is a metaphor. The people in the cave represent us in society, and Plato thought that we are prisoners in the cave looking only at the shadows of things.

Answer 2
Answer: Plato, with his famous theory called Theory of Forms and his Allegory of the Cave 

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