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Philosophy of matter

Philosophy of matter
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  1. 9. THE PHILOSOPHICAL NOTION OF MATTER INVOLVES A CONTRADICTION.--Some there are who make a DISTINCTION betwixt PRIMARY and SECONDARY qualities. By the former they mean extension, figure, motion, rest, solidity or impenetrability, and number; by the latter they denote all other sensible qualities, as colours, sounds, tastes, and so forth.

    George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

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  2. They seem to have been deceived on this point, through supposing a form to be something made _per se,_ so that it would be the effect of a formal principle. But, as the Philosopher proves (Metaph. vii, Did. vi, 8), what is made, properly speaking, is the _composite:_ for this properly speaking, is, as it were, what subsists. Whereas the form is called a being, not as that which is, but as that by which something is…

    Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I

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  3. Thus the origin of the doctrine of matter is the outcome of uncritical acceptance of space and time as external conditions for natural existence. By this I do not mean that any doubt should be thrown on facts of space and time as ingredients in nature.

    Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919

    Close in meaning to Philosophy of matter; the term itself is not named.

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Part of Hellenistic philosophy.

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