To Scotus and many of his fellow Franciscans it therefore seemed obvious that we need to posit a plurality of substantial forms to avoid these metaphysical incongruities. One standard form of such pluralism postulated a “form of the body” (forma corporeitatis) that makes a given parcel of matter to be a definite, unique, individual organism, and the “animating form” or soul, which makes that body alive. At death, the animating soul ceases to vivify the body, but numerically the same body remains