 Dual-aspect approaches consider mental and material domains of reality as aspects, or manifestations, of one underlying reality in which mind and matter are unseparated. In such a framework, the distinction between mind and matter results from the application of a basic tool for achieving epistemic access to, i.e., gather knowledge about, both the separated domains and the underlying  reality.[16]  Consequently, the status of the underlying, psychophysically neutral domain is considered as ontic relative to the mind-matter distinction.