to Aristotle the ‘forms’ were in the things, because they were the particular characteristics of these things. So Aristotle disagreed with Plato that the ‘idea’ chicken came before the chicken. What Aristotle called the ‘form’ chicken is present in every single chicken as the chicken’s particular set characteristics – for one, that it lays eggs. The real chicken and the ‘form’ chicken are thus just as inseparable as body and soul.
