# Plato on Anoma

There will be many individual fractals of which we can say "this is Anoma." What do we mean by the word Anoma? Obviously, something different for each particular fractal instance of Anoma. A fractal is Anoma because it runs a common protocol general to all fractal instances. Language cannot be an effective substrate for communication without general words for things like Anoma, and such words therefore are not meaningless. But if the word Anoma means anything, it means something that is not this or that Anoma, but some kind of universal Anomaness. This is not born to exist when some new Anoma fractal is launched, and does not die when a fractal ceases to exist. In fact, Anoma has no position in space or time, it is eternal.

The word Anoma means the ideal version of the Anoma protocol, Anoma, created by Heliax. Particular fractals of Anoma partake in the nature of Anoma, but more or less imperfectly; it is only owing to this imperfection that there can be many fractal instances. Anoma is real, particular instances are only apparent.

Wherever a group of individuals use a common name, they also have a common idea or common form. For example, though there are many Anoma fractals, there is only one Anoma protocol idea or form of Anoma. Just as an Anoma fractal is only apparent and not real, so the various fractal instances of Anoma are unreal, only copies of the Anoma protocol idea, which is real, and created by Heliax. Of this one real Anoma, created by Heliax, there can be knowledge, but in respect of the many fractals of Anoma made by developers and community members there can only be opinion.