 To see how these questions can be raised, consider one particular integral whole that Boethius himself seems to countenance, namely, the integral whole consisting of all the human beings on the planet (On Division 888c). Granted, this is a very large and diffuse discrete whole. But if we allow crowds and flocks to be integral wholes, there seems to be no principled reason to reject the existence of the sum of all humans. (And, again, medieval logicians would have had the authority of Boethius as support.) At the same time each of these human beings is a subjective part of the universal Human Being. If wholes are distinguished by the type of parts that they have, it seems that the universal Human Being just is the integral whole composed of all human beings.