ABSTRACT
For Plato the world includes more than all existing things. But even that phrase, since it covers what has been and will be, does not stand for a totality or one thing of which we may say that it exists. There is much to be said about things and existence. So much that is relevant to talking about things and talking about the world, for instance. The distinction between a thing and its existence is obviously not like the distinction between a stick and the water on which it floats; nor even like the distinction between a body and its motion. The question of what sort of unity the world has, is one that occupied most of Plato's philosophy. For Plato the world includes more than all existing things. The belief that God is the source of the world, and that everything in the world has its reality from God.
