On the Magnitude Model (Parmenides 131c-e), if the Form is like a magnitude, then F particulars each possess the whole Form, making the Form wholly present in multiple places simultaneously.

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131c-e(academic citation format for ancient texts): A reference system for locating specific passages in Plato's writings; the numbers and letters pinpoint exactly where in the text this argument appears.
Form (or Idea)(as the central concept in Plato's metaphysics): In Plato's philosophy, a perfect, eternal, unchanging template or blueprint that exists beyond the physical world—for example, the Form of Beauty is the perfect ideal that all beautiful things in the world imperfectly copy.
Magnitude Model(name of the philosophical problem): A specific theory about how Forms work, where a Form is compared to something like physical size or extent—the question being whether a Form can be spread out and present in multiple places at once, like a magnitude can be.
Parmenides: Parmenides was an ancient Greek philosopher (around 500 BCE) who argued that reality is unchanging and that change and motion are illusions. His radical ideas challenged everyday experience and forced later thinkers to reconsider fundamental questions about existence, making him one of the most influential philosophers in Western history.

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