The categories which he used for this purpose, namely the continuous as composed of, or consisting in, indivisibles, and the like, are admittedly not satisfactory, for implied in them is the claim to an intuition of the continuous or, as already said, of its external existence; instead of saying 'that the continuous is nothing other than the indivisibles themselves,' it would have been more correct to say, and consequently also self explanatory, that the determinateness of the magnitude of the continuous is none other than that of the indivisibles themselves.