Single Idea 10942

[catalogued under 9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum]

Full Idea

If you extract all other features of the object, what is revealed as being left over?

Gist of Idea

If you extract all features of the object, what is left over?

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1029a10)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.175


A Reaction

This seems to be the key question in matters of identity, which leads us to talk of substrata, or essences, or substance, none of which seem graspable.