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Single Idea 16628

[filed under theme 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance ]

Full Idea

One of the great attractions of corpuscularianism is that it promises to put our acquaintance with substances on a solid foundation.

Gist of Idea

Corpuscularianism promised a decent account of substance

Source

Robert Pasnau (Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 [2011], 07.3)

Book Ref

Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.129

A Reaction

This is why the seventeenth century did not abandon 'substance', even though they banished 'substantial form'.

The 41 ideas with the same theme [general ideas about notion of unified substances]:

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