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    It is not the case that Sensible particulars must possess certain general characteristics in order to exemplify 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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    • 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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