‘But,’ said the Empress, ‘there is some likeness between maggots and cheese, for cheese has no blood, nor maggots neither; besides, they have almost the same taste which cheese has.’ ‘This proves nothing,’ answered they, ‘for maggots have a visible, local, progressive motion which cheese hath not.’ The Empress replied that when all the cheese was turned into maggots it might be said to have local, progressive motion. They answered that when the cheese by its own figurative motions were changed into maggots it was no more cheese.
– Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666)