Aristotle's Theory of Substance: Difference between revisions

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|Form is that what gives the object, or the subject, its being. Without participating in being,  without containing being, whatever is couldn’t be, so that you  couldn’t have any real things or real  objects unless there was some being within them.   
|Form is that what gives the object, or the subject, its being. Without participating in being,  without containing being, whatever is couldn’t be, so that you  couldn’t have any real things or real  objects unless there was some being within them.   
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|style="padding: 10px" |'''Matter'''  
|style="padding: 10px" |'''Becoming'''
|But also, things in this world, physical things,  “material things” as we know them, also have  elements of change, elements of “becoming.” That  is part of the matter of a thing.  
|But also, things in this world, physical things,  “material things” as we know them, also have  elements of change, elements of “becoming.” That  is part of the matter of a thing.  
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