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The Case of the Cat Is Different From That of the Football
It's not true that a cat is an arrangement of cat cells. At least it doesn't come to be as an arrangement ofCat cells. In real life actual reality, a cat comes into being as something that is already a one-celled cat. The existence of cat cells doesn't precede the existence of the cat. It coincides with it. So what this shows is that we need to deviate from the football model. A cat is a thing, a substance. Its essence is to be a cat, to be feline. That essence has two aspects, a material aspect and a formal aspect. And there are problems with the other two causes as well - because it's