If Forms are best understood as non-composite, self-predicating universals in the tradition of Proclus's henads, unity is a formal rather than mereological property and does not generate multiplicity of parts.
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Self-predicating(in metaphysics and philosophy of forms)
When something has the property it describes; for example, if the property 'abstract' were self-predicating, it would mean that 'abstract' itself is abstract.
formal property(logic and mathematics)
A characteristic or feature of something that can be described using logical or mathematical rules, independent of what the thing actually is in the real world.
forms(Timaeus metaphysical scheme)
The eternal and unchanging entities that serve as the 'model' or 'father' in Plato's tripartite metaphysical scheme in the Timaeus.
universals(Debated in Lefèvre's Disceptatio de universali between two students of Chrysippus's academy)
Either what particular classes of things share, or what those who reason say they share (decided by convention)