on and reality, between the perfection of the idea and the imperfection of the reality.
Plato addressed the issue of change by making a distinction between the imperfect material world and the changeless world of forms. This world, the world of the senses, is subject to change, but it is only the shadow of the changeless world of forms. Plato presented this idea graphically in the allegory of the cave in The Republic, where the shadows on the walls represented the imperfect likeness of the perfection of the real objects, much as the real world in which we live is only a reflection of the world of forms. This is Plato's cosmology, and it requires the Forms, the particulars modeled on those forms, and the agent who does the modelling, the Craftsman. Order is imposed on the formless reality of this world by the Craftsman, and this oc
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