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Is anyone interested in exploring this with me? We hear of terms like "consubstantial" in the creed and 'transubstantiation" as in a Catholic explanation of the sacrament. But what does it all really mean?
It seems, in summary, that there are at least six overlapping ideas that contribute to the philosophical concept of substance. Substances are typified as:
Substance (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
It seems, in summary, that there are at least six overlapping ideas that contribute to the philosophical concept of substance. Substances are typified as:
- being ontologically basic—substances are the things from which everything else is made or by which it is metaphysically sustained;
- being, at least compared to other things, relatively independent and durable, and, perhaps, absolutely so;
- being the paradigm subjects of predication and bearers of properties;
- being, at least for the more ordinary kinds of substance, the subjects of change;
- being typified by those things we normally classify as objects, or kinds of objects;
- being typified by kinds of stuff.
- substances are those enduring particulars that give unity to our spatio-temporal framework, and the individuation and re-identification of which enables us to locate ourselves in that framework. (It should be remarked in passing that at least one major expositor of Aristotle (Irwin: 1988, especially chs 1, 9, 10) attributes a very similar intention to Aristotle himself
Substance (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)