Classifying each thing as having an elemental component of its essential self is a satisfactory idea to import, there's a tastiness to the snicker-snack of it between your teeth no?

It's one of those ur-ideas that has been extrapolated into a paradigm that's not always compelling, but that's clearly not the solitary evolution of that idea.

So you ask yourself, what's the Platonic Ideal Idea? And is there an idea that's so perfect that no part of it can be removed?