that it contains no composition whatsoever. If you mean this, your statement amounts to saying that it must contain indivisible atoms. Yet you have agreed with the world’s most discerning thinkers to suspend judgment on the existence of the indivisible atom. If its existence is not known to you, you cannot claim that any body composed of dissimilar parts must contain parts free of composition, let alone make such a claim about the Lord of all worlds.

Moreover, you subsequently stated that each of those simple parts must touch one thing on its right and another on its left, but that its right side is like its left. This is an explicit admission on your part that it is divisible and contains two like things, which contradicts the notion of an indivisible atom.

Thus, his statement, “The analysis of its composition must ultimately arrive at parts each free of this composition, since composition consists in the combination of units,” together with his statement, “Once this is established, we say that each of those simple parts must touch something on its right other than what it touches on its left,” affirms composition in what is simple and free of composition—namely, the indivisible atom. His argument thus entails both affirming the atom