The seventh point is to say: You have offered no evidence whatsoever for your statement, “It has been established that whatever is divisible is not one”—neither a sound proof nor even a specious argument. All he had mentioned previously was that a body is composed of two atoms, saying, “That is incompatible with unity.” This too is a claim for which you have offered no proof. Even if this were established concerning something actually composite, it would not be established concerning something merely capable of division, since the latter does not contain the multiplicity found in the former. How, then, when you have offered no argument for any of this? Where is this established conclusion to which he refers? Something can only be said to have been established if it is self-evident or has been demonstrated by an argument.

The eighth point is that many groups of your fellow speculative theologians, both earlier and later, maintain that nothing exists except a body or what subsists in it, or that nothing exists except body alone, and that