Context: Vaiśeṣika metaphysical premises are founded on a form of atomism, that the reality is composed of four substances (earth, water, air, fire). Each of these four are of two types: atomic (paramāṇu) and composite. An atom is, according to Vaiśeṣika scholars, that which is indestructible (anitya), indivisible, and has a special kind of dimension, called “small” (aṇu). A composite, in this philosophy, is defined to be anything which is divisible into atoms. Whatever human beings perceive is composite, while atoms are invisible. The Vaiśeṣikas stated that size, form, truths and everything that human beings experience as a whole is a function of atoms, their number and their spatial arrangements, their guṇa (quality), karma (activity), sāmānya (commonness), viśeṣa (particularity) and amavāya (inherence, inseparable connectedness of everything).

Question: According to Vaisesika philosophy, how many substances comprise reality?
Answer: four

Question: What are the substances of Vaisesika reality?
Answer: earth, water, air, fire

Question: Of what does Vaisesika philosophy say the things are made ?
Answer: atoms

Question: According to Vaisesika what is divisible into atoms?
Answer: composite

Question: What form are atoms in Vaisesika?
Answer: invisible

Question: How many realities are there?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does Vaisesika teach is able to be destroyed?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is not a function of atoms?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is the name of a substance's special dimension?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What are atoms divided into?
Answer: Unanswerable