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Aristotle argued at length against many aspects of Plato's forms, creating his own doctrine of hylomorphism wherein form and matter coexist.

Ultimately however, Aristotle's aim was to perfect a theory of forms, rather than to reject it.

Although Aristotle strongly rejected the independent existence Plato attributed to forms, his metaphysics do agree with Plato's a priori considerations quite often.

For example, Aristotle's argues that changeless, eternal substantial form is necessarily immaterial.

Because matter provides a stable substratum for a change in form, matter always has the potential to change.

Thus, if given an eternity in which to do so, it will, necessarily, exercise that potential.