Full Idea
Prime matter falls halfway, as it were, between complete non-existence and actual existence.
Gist of Idea
Prime matter is halfway between non-existence and existence
Source
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (Commentary on 'Physics' [1190], I.70), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 03.1
Book Reference
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.38
Related Idea
Idea 16588 I prefer a lack of form to mean non-existence, than to think of some quasi-existence [Augustine]