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    It is not the case that Any form that has participants is one.

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    • 1.A form may have participants without itself being numerically one — it could be a type or universal that is instantiated multiply without having singular identity.
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    • 2.Frege's distinction between concepts and objects shows that predicative entities (concepts) resist the kind of self-predication that would make them 'one' in the same sense as objects.
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    • 3.If 'oneness' is itself a form, then attributing oneness to every participating form generates a vicious regress parallel to the Third Man Argument Parmenides himself raises against Plato.
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    • 1.Aristotle argues in Metaphysics Z that universals are not substances and therefore lack the determinate unity that 'being one' requires for individual things.
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    • 2.A form that is genuinely 'one over many' participates in its own nature only if self-predication holds, but self-predication leads to the Third Man regress, undermining the claim that any such form is coherently one.
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    • 1.For any plurality P of F things, there is a form of F-ness by virtue of partaking of which each member of P is F.
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    • 2.The form of F-ness is 'one over many' in the sense that it is that by virtue of partaking of which each member of P is F.
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    • 3.Anything that is one 'over' many is (in some sense) one.
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