Lord_Gareth wrote:
Wasn't it decided, like, ages ago that Plato's Cave was an inherently unprovable concept?
The Cave analogy holds true to an extent, we genuinely can't empirically experience "true reality". Our eyes can't see all electromagnetic wave lengths, or anything too small. Our ears can't hear all sounds. We can only feel to a certain precision. We can use logic (theoretical physics) to deduce things about the world that we can't perceive, and we can attempt to verify them using carefully design experiments, but we can never directly perceive what is truly there, only an imitation of it.
The Theory of Forms is unprovable, yes.