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Single Idea 18865
[filed under theme 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
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Full Idea
It appears that substance has essential properties: it is of the essence of substance that it individuates, and it is of the essence of substance that it bears properties.
Gist of Idea
Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing
Source
Jonathan Tallant (Metaphysics: an introduction [2011], 06.2)
Book Ref
Tallant,Jonathan: 'Metaphysics - an introduction' [Continuum 2011], p.122
A Reaction
The point being that substances are not 'bear', because they have a role to perform, and a complete blank can't fulfil a role. We can't take substance, though, seriously in ontology. It is just a label for distinct individuals.
The
37 ideas
with the same theme
[attempts to define what a substance consists of]:
598
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Democritus said that substances could never be mixed, so atoms are the substances
[Democritus, by Aristotle]
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8287
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Earlier Aristotle had objects as primary substances, but later he switched to substantial form
[Aristotle, by Lowe]
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12350
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Things are called 'substances' because they are subjects for everything else
[Aristotle]
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11299
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Substance [ousia] is the subject of predication and cause [aitia?] of something's existence
[Aristotle]
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12060
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Essence (fixed by definition) is also 'ousia', so 'ousia' is both ultimate subject, and a this-thing
[Aristotle]
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10941
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A substance is what-it-is-to-be, or the universal, or the genus, or the subject of saying
[Aristotle]
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595
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It is matter that turns out to be substance [ousia]
[Aristotle]
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11290
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Matter is not substance, because substance needs separability and thisness
[Aristotle]
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10959
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The substance is the form dwelling in the object
[Aristotle]
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12093
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Substance is unified and universals are diverse, so universals are not substance
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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12362
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A thing's substance is its primary cause of being
[Aristotle]
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607
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None of the universals can be a substance
[Aristotle]
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11233
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In Aristotle, 'proté ousia' is 'primary being', and 'to hupokeimenon' is 'that which lies under' (or 'substance')
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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12079
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Substance is distinct being because of its unity
[Aristotle, by Witt]
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5013
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A substance needs nothing else in order to exist
[Descartes]
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4813
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Substance is that of which an independent conception can be formed
[Spinoza]
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21857
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Substance is the power of self-actualisation
[Spinoza, by Lord]
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7945
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We think of substance as experienced qualities plus a presumed substratum of support
[Locke]
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12712
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Substance is that which can act
[Leibniz]
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12756
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Substance is a force for acting and being acted upon
[Leibniz]
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11855
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Substances cannot be bare, but have activity as their essence
[Leibniz]
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13091
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Leibnizian substances add concept, law, force, form and soul
[Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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7561
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Substances are essentially active
[Leibniz, by Jolley]
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3959
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There is no other substance, in a strict sense, than spirit
[Berkeley]
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6729
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Material substance is just general existence which can have properties
[Berkeley]
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21451
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All appearances need substance, as that which persists through change
[Kant]
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5564
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Substance must exist, as the persisting substratum of the process of change
[Kant]
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22628
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Substance has to exist, with no intrinsic qualities or relations
[McTaggart]
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12047
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We refer to persisting substances, in perception and in thought, and they aid understanding
[Wiggins]
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7712
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On substances, Leibniz emphasises unity, Spinoza independence, Locke relations to qualities
[Lowe]
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16128
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A 'substance' is an object which doesn't depend for existence on other objects
[Lowe]
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13069
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The general assumption is that substances cannot possibly be non-substances
[Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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12358
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Substance is a principle and a kind of cause
[Wedin]
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7930
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The bundle theory of substance implies the identity of indiscernibles
[Macdonald,C]
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19347
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Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates
[Perkins]
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15391
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A substance is, roughly, a basic being or subject at the foundation of reality
[Robb]
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18865
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Substance must have two properties: individuation, and property-bearing
[Tallant]
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