" For the reader’s future reference, here are brief summaries of the DIM modes, each described in a few phrases. Aristotle: Unity through: natural world/grasped by concepts derived from percepts. I: One in the Many Plato: Unity through: transcendent world/grasped by concepts independent of percepts; natural world is appearance, and percepts are untrustworthy. M2: One without the Many Worldly Supernaturalists: Unity through: M2 above, except: natural world is real, and concepts, some or all, must be applicable to percepts. M1: Many from the One Kant: Unity impossible and undesirable; concepts and percepts alike are detached from reality. D2: Many without the One Knowing Skeptics: Unity through: natural world/grasped in unrelated chunks by lower-level concepts. D1: Ones in the Many "

― Leonard Peikoff , The DIM Hypothesis: Why the Lights of the West Are Going Out