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[filed under theme 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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Full Idea
I consider the notion of substance to be one of the keys to the true philosophy. ....I imagine that philosophers will one day know the notion of substance a bit better than they do now.
Gist of Idea
The notion of substance is one of the keys to true philosophy
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Thomas Burnett [1703], 1699.01.20/30)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Essays', ed/tr. Arlew,R /Garber,D [Hackett 1989], p.286
A Reaction
This is a controversial remark at this historical moment, when the apparent Aristotelian commitment to substances was becoming discredited. Personally I would eliminate substance, but not just because physicists don't refer to it.
The
41 ideas
with the same theme
[general ideas about notion of unified substances]:
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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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