posit the Form of Largeness to explain the largeness of all the large things. But hang on a minute: isn’t the Form of Largeness itself large? If so, there’s another, slightly more extensive group of large things, namely the large things that partake of the Form plus the Form of Largeness itself. So we should posit another, second Form of Largeness, to explain the fact that all these things—the large items plus the first Form of Largeness—are large (132a–b). And we can keep going, because there’s yet another distinct set of large things, consisting of the large items, the first Form of
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