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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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