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Comment author: [deleted] 08 October 2012 08:55:35PM *  1 point [-]

In the loose sense of 'form' (cf. Physics I.7), I think objects could: a rabbit has the form of a rabbit, and if it's white it has that form too. That's also consistant with the relationship between primary and secondary substances and non-substances from Categories.

On the other hand, in Metaphysics, 'form' is pretty much restricted to the identity of a substance. Still I think Aristotle would be happy enough with polymorphism so long as you made a distinction between substance-forms and non-substance-forms.

Comment author: thomblake 08 October 2012 09:04:01PM 0 points [-]

Sounds about right to me.