The majority of rational people also reject this.

For when semen becomes an animal, water becomes air, or air becomes water, and in similar cases, the second body has an entity and attributes of its own, distinct from those of the first. They share only their general kind: each has a magnitude, and each is capable of joining and separation. Yet the particular magnitude of one is not the very same magnitude as that of the other, nor is the subject in which joining and separation occur in one the very same subject in which they occur in the other.

When either is capable of joining and separation, this means its coming together and coming apart, which is an accident of it. The entity capable of coming together—the subject in which this occurs—remains the very same entity, but comes apart after having been joined, like cloth, stone, and similar things that can be cut or broken. It is like wax, whose forms change while it remains the very same wax, or silver, whose forms change while its individual entity persists. Thus, the entity itself—which is the substance and the body—persists; only its shape and attribute have changed. What has changed is its accidental form, not its reality.

The term (form) is used in more than one sense. It may mean shape and configuration, such as the form of a ring or a candle; the matter that preserves this form is the body itself.

It may also mean the body itself that possesses a form, and this body that possesses a form