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Full Idea
Aristotle had a hierarchical conception of matter; what is matter may itself have matter.
Gist of Idea
Aristotle had a hierarchical conception of matter
Source
report of Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], matter) by Kit Fine - Aristotle on Matter §1
Book Ref
-: 'Mind' [-], p.36
A Reaction
This shows that Aristotle's 'hule' is not like our word 'matter' so a real effort must be made to grasp how he is conceptualising it.
22727 | Mind creates the world from a mixture of pure substances [Anaxagoras, by ] |
24249 | The elements seem able to transmute into each other [Plato] |
13216 | Matter is the limit of points and lines, and must always have quality and form [Aristotle] |
17994 | The primary matter is the substratum for the contraries like hot and cold [Aristotle] |
16590 | Matter is neither a particular thing nor a member of a determinate category [Aristotle] |
10955 | Matter is perceptible (like bronze) or intelligible (like mathematical objects) [Aristotle] |
601 | Substance must exist, because something must endure during change between opposites [Aristotle] |
12299 | Aristotle had a hierarchical conception of matter [Aristotle, by Fine,K] |
12001 | Aristotle says matter is a lesser substance, rather than wholly denying that it is a substance [Aristotle, by Kung] |
16762 | Matter desires form, as female desires male, and ugliness desires beauty [Aristotle] |
12058 | Aristotle's matter can become any other kind of matter [Aristotle, by Wiggins] |
16624 | Stripped and passive matter is just a human invention [Bacon] |
14265 | The components of abstract definitions could play the same role as matter for physical objects [Fine,K] |