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Matter was supposed to answer Plato’s unsolved problem: What is it that changes or becomes? As Mary Louise Gill shows in her classic study, Aristotle’s concept of matter lies “at the intersection of [his] theory of substance and his theory of change” (Gill, 1989, p. 3). 3, 194, 23–26). Aristotle believed that postulating this matter as a metaphysical ultimate would allow him to explain what makes this particular object what it is: What is the cause of the unity of the spherical and the bronze? Indeed the difficulty disappears because the one is matter, the other form.