Disputationes tres

V.
We establish, however, that there is a difference between Mixture and Generation. For those things which are mixed are present in the Mixture both by reason of Matter and of Form, and thus of the whole Substance: In Generation, however, the Thing remains and exists only by reason of the Matter.

VI.
Therefore, we assert that physical Mixture, according to Aristotle and the more sincere Philosophers, occurs in such a way that the Whole is mixed through the wholes ὅλα δι' ὅλων wholly through and through: and through the mediating Qualities, both acting and being acted upon in turn, a certain new species of the Mixed is made.

VII.
It is therefore easy now to respond to those who, inebriated by their own arguments, used to deny that Mixture exists. For it is not absurd for mixables to remain and not remain in a mixed body; and for the things that are in the mixture to both exist and not exist.

VIII.
For they are in the mixture not by reason of Act, but by reason of Potentiality. For the powers of the Qualities are broken in mixed things, so that they neither retain their Qualities entirely intact, nor lose them entirely: Nor are they in the mixed