Full Idea
If you extract all other features of the object, what is revealed as being left over?
Gist of Idea
If you extract all features of the object, what is left over?
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1029a10)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.175
A Reaction
This seems to be the key question in matters of identity, which leads us to talk of substrata, or essences, or substance, none of which seem graspable.