The Form of Hiawatha the Giraffe

The form of hiawatha the giraffe would be nothing more than her matter having a giraffe quality. This suggests that the form matter relationship is a rather casual one, like the relationship between a wall and the color it happens to be painted. For alexander, this was going too far. Boethus theory makes it impossible to distinguish between these two cases. Still, his heart was in the right place in rejecting platonism.