PHI 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Materialism
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Forms have a permanence to them, they are constant. 1. 2 plato"s cave allegory (cid:1: aristotle"s metaphysics (substance metaphysics) Quality : an accidental property of a thing, e. g. , a person"s haircut. Could characterize without them: while being" has all these senses, the primary type of being is obviously the what" . The other ways of being depend on a thing"s being a substance. Quality, quantity, and relation, for instance belong to individuals, while individuals are free-standing, independent entities. [logos][ ] and this rather than its matter is a thing"s nature : so individuals are form/matter (holomorphic) composites. The form is how a thing is organized, the matter is the stuff that"s organized. E. g. , a statue is a hunk of bronze shaped a certain way, and a watch is a bunch of metal, glass, plastic, etc. , fitted together to keep time: hylomorphism.
