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    It is not the case that The small must have parts.

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    • 1.The Form of Smallness is itself simple and partless, as Plato argues in the Phaedo that Forms are non-composite (78c).
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    • 2.If the Form of Smallness has no parts, then participation in Smallness cannot consist in receiving a part of it.
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    • 3.Therefore, small things can be small without the Form of Smallness having parts to distribute.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphism allows a thing to possess a property by instantiating a form, not by containing a piece of an external entity (Metaphysics VII).
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    • 2.If instantiation rather than mereological partition explains predication, the Piece-of-Pie Model underlying P1 is unjustified.
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    • 3.The Piece-of-Pie Model smuggles in a false assumption that causal participation must be partitive rather than relational.
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    • 1.Combining Causality with the Piece-of-Pie Model entails that small things are small by getting a part of the small.
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    • 2.There are small things.
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