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Full Idea
The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness.
Gist of Idea
The ultimate material of things has the unity of total formlessness
Source
Avicenna (Abu Ibn Sina) (Commentary on the Metaphysics [1022], 11/12.14), quoted by Thomas Aquinas - De Ente et Essentia (Being and Essence)
Book Ref
Aquinas,Thomas: 'Selected Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. McDermott,Timothy [OUP 1993], p.97
A Reaction
This remark is not invalidated by developments in modern particle physics.
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