PHL 3305 Lecture 14

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Substance

substance is that which neither is said of any subject nor is in any subject

Examples: this horse, this man

Hierarchy of substance

• primary substance is a particular thing
• secondary substance is what can be said of a subject (e.g., man, animal)
  • a primary substance's form (in the Aristotelian sense) is one example of secondary substance

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