Socrates and Zeno's Paradoxical Arguments

Socrates dismisses the idea that things are one and not many, as parmenides and zeno want us to believe. In plato's dialogues, he posits forms because they are immune from the compresence of opposites. For example, giraffes, elephants and skyscrapers will all be large by sharing in a form, namely largeness itself. A particular object like a man can partake of opposites at the same time. He is, for instance, both one and many, one man with many body parts.