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    Challenges→There must be at least three forms of largeness (L1, L2, and L3).

    Aristotle's own response in Metaphysics I.9 treats self-predication as an equivocation: forms are not large in the same sense as sensible particulars.

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    • 1.Forms must differ in nature from particulars; otherwise the theory fails to explain participation and the Form-particular distinction collapses.
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    • 2.Equivocation resolves the Third Man argument by showing self-predication doesn't create infinite regress when 'large' means different things.
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    • 3.Aristotle's own ontology treats substances differently than accidents, supporting the view that predication varies across categories.
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    • 1.If forms are large in a wholly different sense, it becomes unclear how sensible things 'participate' in forms—similarity requires some shared meaning.
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    • 2.Equivocation appears ad hoc; Plato's theory should explain self-predication directly rather than explaining it away through linguistic ambiguity.
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    • 3.Forms are supposed to be paradigms that clarify the nature of properties in particulars; equivocation undermines this explanatory role.
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