ABSTRACT
This chapter describes complexity in the truths concerning each Form's display of features. It looks at a variety of texts in which Plato discusses, demonstrates, and develops ancestral classificatory procedure of collection and division. The chapter shows how the idea relates to the program Plato had from the start, and how it received considerable development from the Phaedrus on. It connects newly described method with other work of Plato's, both by the claim that Socrates is a lover of collections and divisions and by naming the method "dialectic". Plato had made it characteristic of Forms to be literally "uniform". The tumbling-about results of some texts can seem to be logically impossible conjunctions or to involve attribution of properties that are incompatible. Each Form is indeed associated with a single nature. The Symposium ascent passage indicates types of qualifications that can be relevant. In English translations of texts on Platonic division, often find the vocabulary of "kinds", "genera", and "species".
