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Single Idea 556

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking]

Full Idea

If there is the same Form for the Forms and for their participants, then they must have something in common.

Gist of Idea

If there is one Form for both the Form and its participants, they must have something in common

Source

comment on Plato (works [c.375 BCE]) by Aristotle - Metaphysics 991a

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.34