Concept
Inherence
Overview
Empedocles' idea, further developed by Plato and Aristotle, that the qualities of matter come from the relative proportions of each of the four classical Greek elements entering into a thing
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Philosophers who discussed Inherence
Related ideas
- Quality (philosophy)
- Subjunctive possibility
- Categories (Aristotle)
- Plato
- Theory of forms
- Substance theory
- Aristotle
- Incorporeality
- Timaeus (dialogue)
- Philosophy of matter
- Accident (philosophy)
- Proportionality (mathematics)
- Empedocles
- Participation (philosophy)
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of metaphysics.