 3) The magna quaestio is many-sided. Averroes recalls a passage in Physics VI, 240a29–b7, where Aristotle refuted Zeno’s fourth argument against motion and asserted that the sphere moves in accordance with the whole as well as with the parts. Therefore, if Themistius claimed that the sphere is in place not in accordance with the whole but only with the parts, because he thought that only its parts change place, he would contradict Aristotle’s views (LC 141I).