Introduction

The acid test theories of matter. Is a human body more like a cake, or more like fruit salad? You might say like a cake because its arrival means that it's somebody's birthday. But what i mean is something else. A'm asking about the human's material composition. If your body is like a cake then the stuff that was used to make you has been replaced with a new substance. Just as there are no actual eggs in the finished cake,. The initial ingredients of your body are no longer actually present in your body. This would be the view of thomas aquinas, who held that each substance has only one form. For him, a human body is made ultimately of