3. It's this second Platonistic realism that William of Champeux takes up and Abelard attacks. Because he has little direct exposure to Aristotle he feels free to refer to the original Platonic Forms in question as material essences. (and the accidental characteristics attracted in order to get an individual he describes as advening forms). It is at odds with Aristotelian usage to describe a form as "matter" or "natural"
See Quote wk 8 handout quote 1
3.1 "Socrates is brunellus" argument
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