But while the pieces of wood are experienced through the eyes, the form of equality can only be contemplated through the mind. Plato's 'thing in itself' shares a great deal with Parmennides' notion of 'what is'like Parmennides''being', Plato's forms are 'single' and 'unchanging',and cannot 'come into being'.And like Parmenides,Plato creates a radical disjunction between the world of experience and the world of