Among the most extraordinary pages in Plato, demonstrating the anti Platonism at the heart of Platonism, are those which suggest that the different, the dissimilar, the unequal in short, becoming may well be not merely defects which affect copies like a ransom paid for their secondary character or a counterpart to their resemblance, but rather models themselves, terrifying models of the pseudos in which unfolds the power of the false.