see and touch. Underlying all things, therefore, are the same atoms, the same basic substance, arranged in different ways to produce what we perceive through the senses. And I daresay that in time this will be demonstrated to all.
MYSELF: Well, yes, in a way, though the picture is much more complex than that, and in fact, the more we know, the more complicated it gets.
MYSELF: Yes, but they are not indivisible, and they are made up of smaller units that do cohere in ways producing different physical properties.
ARISTOTLE: At least you are all talking about one reality and not that mystical duality of my teacher, Plato. I think some of what you are saying fits my division of the sensory world into form and matter, though I see these as two features of reality that can be distinguished only in thought and not in fact. Forms do not exist as separate entities but are embedded only in particular things. Every object ha
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