in contact with the outer surface of the contained body, like the lining of a wearer’s shirt, will find that many places depend upon their occupants, just as a shirt depends upon its wearer, while its wearer has no need of it.

Likewise, we have already explained that “space” may mean a thing’s contiguous boundaries that enclose it—that is, its sides. These are part of it, so they cannot be independent of it, even though it needs them. “Space” may also mean something separate from a thing that surrounds it, such as a sewn shirt. This may depend upon a human being, as his shirt does, or it may have no need of him. Yet even if it has no need of him, a human being never needs any particular space external to himself.

Indeed, the same applies to all existing things: their space consists either of their surrounding boundaries and limits, which are part of them and thus cannot be described as independent of them, or of something separate from them that surrounds them. No created thing needs any particular space.

As for direction, it is only a direction by virtue of something being oriented towards it. Its being a direction therefore depends upon that which is oriented towards it, whereas what is so oriented does not depend upon any particular direction