Abstract
G each and Mills have cited Plato's occasional use of the plural in referring to certain Forms as evidence that Plato conceived of the Forms as self-predicable standards.1 In the Parmenides, for example, not only does Plato freely interchange rok 7ro;kXC and To iX;kOo0,2 but in one place he actually uses the expression m&roc ta 6,LoLa to refer to the Form, Similarity.3 A similar usage is found in the Phaedo with the expression OauT& t& 'c6a.4 The most natural explanation for Plato's use of the plural in these passages, it has been argued, is that, since he regarded the Forms as self-predicable, and since plurality or similarity or equality is most naturally thought of as a property not of a single thing but of a set of things,5 the fact that he
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