Dialogue 28 (1):17- (1989)
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The concept of matter is not, I urge, reducible to the concept of an object. This is to be distingusihed from the counterintuitive Aristotelian claim that matter depends for its existence on objects which it constitutes.
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Keywords | matter stuff objectood composition constitution particular universal individual non-particular |
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DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300015560 |
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