The Mystical and Theological Tradition of Plato

In Plato's philosophy he does adopt the Pythagorean idea that the forms are numbers, the forms are principally mathematical because mathematics can describe everything. And yes, presumably in this idea, your jockstrap cup would also have a form there would be a form of that cup. This will be known as aerosol's classic infinite regress critique of the form doctrine. It really exists in fact the form of cup is more real than these cups. These cups participate in the cup with a capital C, but these are not capital C cup.