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    It is not the case that There must be at least three forms of largeness (L1, L2, and L3).

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    • 1.The One-over-Many principle applies only to predications grounded in non-formal particulars, not to forms predicating themselves.
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    • 2.L2's largeness is not a relational property requiring a further form but is constitutive of its essence, terminating the regress by definition.
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    • 3.Aristotle's own response in Metaphysics I.9 treats self-predication as an equivocation: forms are not large in the same sense as sensible particulars.
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    • 1.Sellars and Owen independently argued that 'large' in 'L1 is large' is a predicate of a different logical type than 'large' in 'Simmias is large'.
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    • 2.If form-predication and particular-predication are not univocal, the new plurality in P2 is not a genuine plurality of the same kind, blocking the application of One-over-Many.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Self-Predication: L2 is itself large.
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    • 2.There is now a new plurality of large things: A, B, C, L1, and L2.
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    • 3.One-over-Many: for any plurality of large things, there is a single form of largeness by virtue of which all members of that plurality are large.
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