The Puzzle of Material Constitution (1/5)

[@oisinkennedy2589]

A perfect explanation, thank you.

[@Zelvital]

The answer is clearly to deny absurdly here. The trick is that, in the case of a statue and clay, there are actually THREE qualitatively different things present. There is the matter of the clay, there is the Ideal Form of the statue, and there is an aggregate of the two: the clay formed into the shape of the statue. The clay survives any shaping or reshaping, the Ideal Form is itself impassible, and the aggregate of the two is destroyed when the matter of the clay is reshaped into something else. Things can occupy one space, but only if they are qualitatively different such that one is material and the other Ideal.