The last of Aristotle's claims that we will consider concerns one of Aristotle's many criticisms of Plato's theory of Forms. In the last paragraph on p. 267 (which begins "Further according to the assumptionÂ…) Aristotle attempts to refute Plato's conception of the Forms by showing that the Forms share in their particulars just as their particulars share in them. On his account, Plato's theory would generate an infinite regress consisting of an unlimited number of Forms. At about 991a in the Metaphysics, claims that a Form, being predicated of a number of things and existing separately from them, will necessitate something else that is predicated of that Form and all of its particulars. If there is a group of men, they are presumed to be men in virtue of their participation in the Form of Man. This Form, however, must be another example of a man, since it is like all the other examples found in the particulars. Thus, a Form of the Form of Man is needed, and this Form of the......
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