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Single Idea 16172
[filed under theme 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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Full Idea
The only thing which is not predicated of some underlying thing is substance, while everything is predicated of it. But the same goes for substances too: there is something underlying them too, which they come from. Plants from seeds, for example.
Gist of Idea
Substance is not predicated of anything - but it still has something underlying it, that originates it
Source
Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 190b01)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Physics', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1996], p.26
A Reaction
[compressed] I presume 'substance' here is 'ousia'. Aristotle's quest is to pin down 'that which lies under', but this shows that if he identified it, he wouldn't have located what is ultimate. The explanation of a plant extends beyond the plant.
Related Idea
Idea 16173
Coming to be is by shape-change, addition, subtraction, composition or alteration [Aristotle]
The
41 ideas
with the same theme
[general ideas about notion of unified substances]:
16091
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Is primary substance just an ultimate subject, or some aspect of a complex body?
[Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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11280
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Primary being is 'that which lies under', or 'particular substance'
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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1694
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Substances have no opposites, and don't come in degrees (including if the substance is a man)
[Aristotle]
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11040
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A single substance can receive contrary properties
[Aristotle]
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24058
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The substance is the cause of a thing's being
[Aristotle]
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569
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If substance is the basis of reality, then philosophy aims to understand substance
[Aristotle]
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592
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The baffling question of what exists is asking about the nature of substance
[Aristotle]
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615
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The Pre-Socratics were studying the principles, elements and causes of substance
[Aristotle]
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11231
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'Ousia' is 'primary being' not 'primary substance'
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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12076
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Substance is prior in being separate, in definition, and in knowledge
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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11284
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It is wrong to translate 'ousia' as 'substance'
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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16172
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Substance is not predicated of anything - but it still has something underlying it, that originates it
[Aristotle]
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16623
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We only infer underlying natures by analogy, observing bronze of a statue, or wood of a bed
[Aristotle]
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6037
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Stoics say matter has qualities, and substance underlies it, with no form or qualities
[Stoic school, by Chalcidius]
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16626
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Substance is only grasped under the general heading of 'being'
[Duns Scotus]
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16776
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Substance is an intrinsic thing, so parts of substances can't also be intrinsic things
[Duns Scotus]
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16667
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Substances are incomplete unless they have modes
[Suárez, by Pasnau]
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3626
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Knowing the attributes is enough to reveal a substance
[Descartes]
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16630
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If we perceive an attribute, we infer the existence of some substance
[Descartes]
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8546
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Powers are part of our idea of substances
[Locke]
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19349
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The complete notion of a substance implies all of its predicates or attributes
[Leibniz]
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12943
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Individuality is in the bond substance gives between past and future
[Leibniz]
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12716
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The concept of forces or powers best reveals the true concept of substance
[Leibniz]
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12916
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A body is a unified aggregate, unless it has an indivisible substance
[Leibniz]
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12919
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Unity needs an indestructible substance, to contain everything which will happen to it
[Leibniz]
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12923
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Every bodily substance must have a soul, or something analogous to a soul
[Leibniz]
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13197
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The notion of substance is one of the keys to true philosophy
[Leibniz]
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12776
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Every substance is alive
[Leibniz]
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5550
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A substance could exist as a subject, but not as a mere predicate
[Kant]
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21981
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The one substance is formless without the mediation of dialectical concepts
[Hegel]
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17553
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We can retain the idea of 'substance', as indestructible mass or energy
[Heisenberg]
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23468
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Apart from the facts, there is only substance
[Wittgenstein]
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4068
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Traditional substance is separate from properties and capable of independent existence
[Crane]
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18507
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Substances bear properties, so must be simple, and not consist of further substances
[Heil]
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13100
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Maybe 'substance' is more of a mass-noun than a count-noun
[Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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18617
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Substances, unlike aggregates, can survive a change of parts
[Mumford]
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7936
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Unlike bundles of properties, substances have an intrinsic unity
[Macdonald,C]
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16617
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Corpuscularian critics of scholasticism say only substances exist
[Pasnau]
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16628
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Corpuscularianism promised a decent account of substance
[Pasnau]
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16741
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Scholastics wanted to treat Aristotelianism as physics, rather than as metaphysics
[Pasnau]
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16777
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If crowds are things at all, they seem to be Substances, since they bear properties
[Pasnau]
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