and conjunction occurs when two spatial locations meet, while separation occurs when they are apart. The second category comprises tastes, colors, and smells; these are qualities. These things are not perceived through a single faculty, but are distinguished through different senses: the faculty by which one is distinguished differs from that by which another is distinguished. Their realities become apparent only through their perception, and perceptions of them are of different kinds, situated in distinct spatial locations. Thus, the distinctness of the spatial locations of their perceptions stands in place of the distinctness of their own spatial locations.

The second type comprises those accidents for which life is a prerequisite, such as knowledge, power, hearing, and sight. These too are distinct from one another. The differences between the loci of their effects may serve in place of differences between their own loci.

It may also be said that all these accidents are posited in relation to something else, and those other things to which they are related are separate from one another by direction. The accidents are therefore distinct through their relation to things distinguished by direction. It has thus become clear that nothing among existing things is separate from anything else solely by virtue of its essence considered apart from direction