If form-exemplification is adequately explained by proximate matter receiving form, the claim that particulars must possess pre-formal general characteristics to receive forms commits a regress by requiring characteristics prior to all form-possession.

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Form (or Form-exemplification)(as used in metaphysics): In philosophy, a 'form' is an abstract universal quality or pattern that multiple individual things can share—like the form of 'redness' that all red objects possess. 'Form-exemplification' means when a particular thing actually displays or possesses that quality.
Pre-formal general characteristics(as used in metaphysics): Shared qualities or features that would supposedly need to exist before an object receives or takes on a form—features that come before formedness.
particulars(Buddhist epistemology (pramāṇa theory)): The actual objects of the world that are directly accessible only through perception and are ineffable — they cannot be captured or referred to by words
proximate matter(Aristotelian hylomorphism): The matter immediately underlying a substance; for a human being, his body.

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