PHL210Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Materialism
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Audio recording started: 10:09 am january 12, 2017. It can exist independently - substance; qualities depend on substance. Basic other entities are reducible to analyzable in terms of substances. Independence, other entities depend on them substance is the most fundamental entities. A substance is a single (unity) individual (us collection) Mountain is not a substance, but the collection of substances. It changes over time, but the human being as a substance lasts. Kinds of substances nominal essence (we experience that is water) Real essence (that explains that water has observable qualities; molecular structure); unknown. Essence = property without which can entity cannot exist. A water (the water itself is substratum; real essence - hidden; nominal essence - concept of the kind) > for religious reason whether there is an afterlife or not. It might be true; the dualism probably be true. Locke thought the matter and physical entities are difficult to understand.
