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Single Idea 16152

[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being ]

Full Idea

The accounts of the other bearers of being depend on the account of substance.

Gist of Idea

Other types of being all depend on the being of substance

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1045b06)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.253


A Reaction

This is the distinctively Aristotelian approach to the problem of Being.