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Ah, but Plato argued that there exists in the abstract a perfect and ideal cookie, greater than which it is impossible for any other cookie--real or otherwise--to be. While a recipe for this abstract ideal cookie may exist, it is impossible to make it into a "real" perfect cookie, for the process of actually mixing and baking translates the ideal into its inevitably imperfect physical form. While it may in fact be a very, very good cookie, its very temporality and transience differentiate it from the abstraction of fundamental and ideal cookieness.
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