The latter is determined by it, receiving from it not simply the outward shape, but all other qualities.

What is then left for Matter (ht/le), which also belongs to the individual object? It cannot do without the Idea or Form, as the latter cannot do without it.

It is, therefore, the absolutely formable, and so it too can have no existence outside of the mind.

Thus the Real Thing of Aristotle is made up of two abstract elements which are not real, except in their unity.

Through the conception of Matter, however, he is led to form another pair of categories.