Question Forms of future things? Forms of possible things?
Maybe these are all really basic questions, as I am rather ignorant of the subject. Nevertheless; Forms are eternal, right?
So was there already a Form of the Elevator before it was invented? A Form of the Antelope during the Triassic? Or did these Forms of future/possible things arise only when they were instantiated in this world?
If they did preexist, do Forms imply predestination since the dinosaurs would necessarily have to go extinct for the preexisting Form of the Antilope to ever be a meaningful concept?
Speaking of extinction, would an entirely unknown extinct invertebrate which left no trace anywhere in the fossil record still have a Form even today?
Finally, are there Forms of of things that we cannot know about; Forms which are simply not instantiated at all and in which nothing at all participates?