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    If the form just is the thought, then the same form thoug... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If every form is a thought, then every form is a thought of a form.

    If the form just is the thought, then the same form thought by different thinkers would be numerically distinct, collapsing the universality that forms are posited to explain.

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    • 1.Thoughts are mental events occurring in individual minds at specific times, making them necessarily particular rather than universal.
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    • 2.If forms are thoughts, they inherit the particularity of thoughts, so two thinkers' thoughts of a form would be distinct tokens.
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    • 3.Forms were posited to explain how multiple distinct things share identical properties—a role requiring something mind-independent and universal.
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    • 1.A form can be a repeatable content that differs from its individual instances—like how the same recipe exists in multiple minds.
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    • 2.Numerical distinctness of particular thoughts doesn't entail distinctness of their intentional object or abstract content.
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    • 3.Forms might constitute what different thinkers converge upon, unified by shared structure rather than existing as separately instantiated particulars.
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