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    Sensible particulars must possess certain general characteristics in order to exemplify forms

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    • 1.For forms to be exemplified in particulars, particulars must be spatially extended and spatially situated
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    • 2.Particulars must be constituted of some indeterminate but determinable stuff that is subject to determination through participation in forms
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    • 1.Aristotle's immanent realism holds that forms are fully present in particulars without requiring any indeterminate substrate distinct from the formed matter itself.
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    • 2.The Timaean receptacle introduces an explanatorily redundant intermediary, since hylomorphic composition already accounts for how determinable matter receives formal determination without positing a featureless third kind.
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    • 3.If form-exemplification is adequately explained by proximate matter receiving form, the claim that particulars must possess pre-formal general characteristics to receive forms commits a regress by requiring characteristics prior to all form-possession.
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    • 1.Berkeley's idealism demonstrates that spatial extension is not a necessary condition for exemplifying universal properties, since mental particulars instantiate redness, roundness, and other forms without occupying physical space.
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    • 2.If immaterial minds can possess general characteristics like rationality or virtue without spatial situatedness, then spatiality cannot be a prerequisite for form-exemplification in general.
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    The introduction of the receptacle is an important innovation in Plato’s metaphysics, and clearly a development that takes him beyond the metaphysics of the middle dialogues.[17] Little attention was given in those dialogues to the question of what it is to be a sensible particular (other than being something that participates in forms), or what is required of particulars to be such that forms may be exemplified in them. In order to be effective in their role of exemplifying forms, particulars
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