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A few days ago there was a thread on here where some anon was acting as if he was some kind of Platonic sage, and another anon asked why actions (I think his example was laying down or sitting or something) don't have Platonic Forms that they participate in. The pseud couldn't answer this and got really butthurt about how everyone was retarded for thinking that laying down was "intelligent".

So, why IS sitting down, or lying, or singing, or some other action not something that has a Form? I don't see how the argument about universality doesn't apply to actions. If every piece of bacon is participating in the Form Of The Bacon, why isn't every act of singing? I don't see how any argument against every act of singing being different doesn't just apply to every piece of bacon.

If it's a problem of "nouns vs verbs", what if we "nominalize the verb"? Like how we can treat wars or governments as objects despite the fact at they're obviously not a physical thing.

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