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16587 | Prime matter is halfway between non-existence and existence |
Full Idea: Prime matter falls halfway, as it were, between complete non-existence and actual existence. | |||
From: Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (Commentary on 'Physics' [1190], I.70), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 03.1 |