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Single Idea 12057
[filed under theme 9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object
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Full Idea
Matter ex hypothesi is what ultimately underlies (to huperkeimenon) a thing; it is that from which something comes to be and which remains as a non-coincidental component in the thing's make-up.
Gist of Idea
Matter underlies things, composes things, and brings them to be
Source
David Wiggins (Substance [1995], 192a30)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Physics', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1996], p.31
A Reaction
This is an interesting prelude to the much more comprehensive discussion of matter in Metaphysics, where he crucially adds the notion of 'form', and gives it priority over the underlying matter.
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14 ideas
from 'Substance'
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12057
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Matter underlies things, composes things, and brings them to be
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12047
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We refer to persisting substances, in perception and in thought, and they aid understanding
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12056
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An ancestral relation is either direct or transitively indirect
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12055
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Sortal predications are answers to the question 'what is x?'
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12059
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A river may change constantly, but not in respect of being a river
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12063
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Sortal classification becomes science, with cross reference clarifying individuals
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12064
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The category of substance is more important for epistemology than for ontology
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12065
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Seeing a group of soldiers as an army is irresistible, in ontology and explanation
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12049
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Naming the secondary substance provides a mass of general information
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12050
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Substances contain a source of change or principle of activity
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12052
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We never single out just 'this', but always 'this something-or-other'
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12051
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If the kinds are divided realistically, they fall into substances
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12053
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'Human being' is a better answer to 'what is it?' than 'poet', as the latter comes in degrees
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12054
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Secondary substances correctly divide primary substances by activity-principles and relations
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