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I might beg off of that dichotomy because I think Platonic forms are comprised of function.

It relates to his larger theory of causality as a proof of metaphysics, which is a bit subtle, although I riff on it in a recent article for the Evil Site.

To Plato a chair was not the result of the form of a chair, but the result of the forms of gravity and humans.

(Philosophy professors always use chairs for some reason. They are easily understood as the simplest solution to a certain need. This means that their form is almost exclusively defined by this need. Anything with support and a back is a chair, even a hollowed stump.)