Bayle, who in his Dictionary (Article, 'Zenon') finds Aristotle's solution to the dialectic of Zeno 'pitoyable,' does not understand what it means to say that matter is infinitely divisible only as possibility; his retort is that, if matter were divisible in infinitum, it would actually contain an infinite aggregate of parts and would be, therefore, not an infinite 'en puissance,' but an infinite that exists really and actually.