Aquinas on the Union of Body and Soul | Prof. Gyula Klima
The Thomistic Institute
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The Uniformity of Matter
The objection is simply based on conflating different types of entities and counting them together, which is illicit. As Aquinas himself succinctly put it, the part does not constitute a number with the whole. So form and matter and the substance they constitute as well as any of the substances integral parts share the same substantial act of being determined by the form. Yet each of these items has the same act differently, the substance has this, that which is the form as that by which the substance is. And we might add the matter as the subject in which this form is as in its subject. That's all. Let me see, because there is still quite a lot to be covered here
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