"Plato's beard" is a philosophical concept that emerges in discussions about the nature of definitions and categorization, particularly in the context of how we understand and classify things in the world. The phrase is often associated with the problems of vagueness and how language can sometimes fail to capture the essence of a concept. The term is not directly from Plato’s own works, but it arises from a modern philosophical dialogue concerning the paradoxes of definitions.
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