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Substance in Aristotle's Meatphysics VII

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 7:14 p.m.

Aristotle floated a preliminary idea about a primary substance in the Categories. He suggested the primary substance could be the individual such as Socrates because all the other categories (predicates) depend on that individual thing for their existence. But after introducing the idea of matter and the other causes, he sees a problem. The individual thing cannot be the primary substance. It must be the species-form.