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> To Plato a chair was not the result of the form of a chair, but the result of the forms of gravity and humans.

It's been a couple of decades since I read Socrates's books about Plato and I don't think I understood it very well, but I do remember Plato talking about trees and the perfect, ideal tree that all visible trees are a manifestation of, and then his discussion of "a head taller" not meaning "for reason of a head" but because the essence of size had manifested more perfectly in the tall guy than the short one. I'll have to defer to you on Plato, maybe the concept of the "Platonic ideal" had colored my ability to read Plato.

> Philosophy professors always use chairs for some reason.

They are often sedentary.

> even a hollowed stump.

Fedi has colored my perception on Diogenes. I can practically hear him saying "Look, I'm not jacking off in your bakery, I'm just moving my arm and my dick happens to be there. You're the one that defined the place inside these walls as 'yours' and 'a bakery' and I didn't consent to this."