![]() Yet substance is supposed to be separable (identifiable, distinct) and a "this."Īlso, if form is prior to matter in a compound, we can rule out the compound (as candidate for subject) just as much as the matter.Ĭh. But this means matter has nothing definite or specifiable about it. unacceptable? Matter is the underlying thing everything else, such as quantity, quality, etc., is predicated of it. However: this is an inadequate answer to the question, what is substance? The subject may be the matter, the form, or the compound (bronze, shape of a horse, a bronze statue of a horse). What is subject? It seems most of all to be substance: other things are said of it, and it is not said of other things. There are four main candidates for substance: essence, universal, genus, and subject. We can ask many questions here: which things are substances? Are there non-perceptible substances?Ĭh. The most evident examples of substances are bodies, perhaps the simple bodies, and/or the limits/surfaces of bodies. Substance is primary: in nature, in account (definition), and in knowledge.Ĭh. Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H Aristotle's Metaphysicsīooks VII and VII (Z and H): Highlights Philosophy 201, Fall 1996ħ43-2993, readings are in Ancient Greek Philosophy, ed. ![]()
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