A, 4. 187ᵇ 25 — 188ᵃ 16.

25...being separated, such as flesh from water, and another being generated from the remainder through separation, even if the amount separated is always getting smaller, 30 it still will not bypass a certain magnitude by becoming too small. Thus, if the separation stops, not everything will be in everything (for flesh will not exist in the remaining water). If it does not stop, but there is always a removal, then within a finite magnitude there will exist an infinite number of equal finite parts. This is impossible. 35 Furthermore, if it is necessary that every body becomes smaller when something is removed, and the quantity of flesh is defined both by its magnitude and its smallness, it is evident that from the smallest piece of 188 a flesh, no body will be separated; for it would be smaller than the smallest. Furthermore, within infinite bodies there would already exist infinite flesh, blood, and brain, separated from one another, yet nonetheless existing, and each would be infinite. 5 This is irrational. The claim that they will never be separated is stated without understanding, yet it is stated correctly; for the attributes are inseparable. If, therefore, colors and states had been mixed, when they are separated, there would be something white and healthy that is not anything else, nor is it predicated of a subject. So, the nous intellect is absurd in seeking impossibilities, if it wishes 10 to separate them, while this is impossible both in terms of quantity and quality. It is impossible in terms of quantity because there is no smallest magnitude, and in terms of quality because the attributes are inseparable. He also does not correctly grasp the coming to be of things of the same kind. For there is a way in which clay is divided into clays, and there is 15 a way in which it is not. And the way is not the same as bricks coming from a house and a house from bricks, so that water and air are generated from one another.