Plato on the Self-Predication of Forms: Early and Middle Dialogues.

Abstract

The extent of self-predication in the earlier dialogues self-predication in the Hippias Major and the Protagoras the third man the middle-dialogue forms are universals the rejection of the doctrine that the form is not an F Thing the form as an F Thing non-univocally with the F Particulars the form as an F Thing univocally with the F Particulars logico-linguistic error as the genesis of the paradigm case three more likely sources for the paradigm case the failure to distinguish the universal from the paradigm case.