 Averroes believes this to be the solution and does understand why Alexander of Aphrodisias held the view that the sphere of the fixed stars is not in a place. Besides he thinks that Alexander influenced Avicenna to deny that the heavenly body is in place and to affirm that its motion is only “positional”, it changes only its position (situale, LC 144H–I TC47). Averroes final position is read at the beginning of TC44 that comments on Physics IV.4, 212b3–6: