Abstract
M atter' says Zeller in his account of Aristotle's metaphysics 'is the source of individual existence, in all those things at least which are formed of the union of Matter and Form.... Between the Individuals into which the in/imae species resolve themselves no difference of kind or Form any longer exists, and consequently they must be distinguished from one another by their Matter.' Zeller is here only restating an interpretation which had always been orthodox and which still holds the field today. It was accepted without question by Lukasiewicz, G. E. M. Anscombe and K. R. Popper, in the symposium 'The principle of individuation', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume for 1953, and has recently been defended by A. C. Lloyd (Mind 1970). In this paper I shall try to cast doubt on it.
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