The second point concerns his statement: “Those who deny atoms say that anything that can be pointed to as being here or there on the basis of sensory perception must have one side distinguishable from the other, which entails that it is divisible.”

By calling it divisible, these people mean only that some of its parts can be distinguished from others within it, that one thing within it can be distinguished from another, or that the intellect can distinguish one thing within it from another. There is no limit at which this process of distinguishing must stop. They do not affirm any division within it other than this. Rather, they say that it is one in itself, just as it is one to the senses. They also classify bodies as simple or composite.

Those who affirm atoms, however, hold two views. The first is that it is likewise one in itself and to the senses, but its division reaches a limit. The second is that