 Alternatively, monists might deny that Piece (i.e., Athena) can survive being flattened. When Piece is flattened, Piece ceases to exist, at which point an entirely new piece of clay (composed of the same atoms) comes into existence. This strategy is sometimes called “the doctrine of dominant kinds”, since the idea is that when an object belongs to multiple kinds, the object has the persistence conditions associated with whichever of the kinds “dominates” the others. Because statue dominates piece, Piece is a statue essentially, and therefore cannot survive ceasing to be  statue-shaped.[27]