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    Challenges→No form is in humans

    If participation entails a genuine ontological relation between form and particular, then forms are not wholly absent from humans but structurally implicated in them.

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    • 1.Particulars exhibit stable, repeatable properties (humanity, whiteness) that require explanation beyond mere individual instance.
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    • 2.If forms causally structure particulars, they must be internally related to them rather than wholly transcendent and separate.
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    • 3.Humans manifest formal properties (rationality, mortality) constitutive of their nature, suggesting forms are implicated in their structure.
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    • 1.Ontological relations require causal interaction; forms traditionally conceived as causally inert cannot genuinely relate to particulars.
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    • 2.Structural implication suggests forms exist in space-time or mental content; neither fits transcendent forms without collapsing the theory.
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    • 3.Particulars could instantiate formal properties without forms being implicated in them—instantiation differs from structural composition.
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