 From the neo-Platonic On Causes (Liber de causis) Boethius borrowed the term fixio. To be “fixed” is to have a place in reality. The First Cause is fixed entirely by itself, lower entities (separate substances, material substances, matter, accidents) all need the support of the First Cause, and, as one descends the hierarchy, increasingly more support from elsewhere. The relation between the First Cause and other beings is also called factio, “making”, but this does not imply creation in the traditional sense; it does, however, mean that everything “made” is existentially dependent on the First Cause and thus fundamentally contingent (Ebbesen 2005, Donati 2017).