• Substance theory, or substance–attribute theory, is an ontological theory positing that objects are constituted each by a substance and properties borne...
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  • with different theories. These are evolutionary theories, molecular theories, system theories and cellular theories. The evolutionary theory of ageing was...
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  • particular, there is no substance in which the properties are inherent. Bundle theory has been contrasted with the ego theory of the self, which views...
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  • Ousia, term for substance in ancient Greek philosophy and Christian theology Substance theory, an ontological theory positing that a substance is distinct...
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  • According to substance theory, the answer is a substance, that which stands for the change. According to substance theory, because substances are only experienced...
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    phlogistic substance was first proposed in 1667 by Johann Joachim Becher and later put together more formally in 1697 by Georg Ernst Stahl. Phlogiston theory attempted...
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    Matter (redirect from Corporeal substance)
    In classical physics and general chemistry, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume. All everyday objects that can be...
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    major role in developing the mind–body problem. He describes his theory of mental substance (which he calls res cogitans distinguishing it from the res extensa)...
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  • believed to exist at one time but no longer is. Such substances are often part of an obsolete scientific theory. It was once believed to have drastically different...
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  • Materialism (category Metaphysical theories)
    of philosophical monism according to which matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and all things, including mental states and consciousness,...
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  • a compilation of various texts treating abstract subjects, notably substance theory, different kinds of causation, form and matter, the existence of mathematical...
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    universals do exist over and above particulars, and to the hylomorphic substance theory of Aristotle, which asserts that universals are immanently real within...
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  • Hylomorphism (category Substance theory)
    Endurantism Hylotheism Hylozoism Inherence Materialism Moderate realism Substance theory Tripartitism Vitalism Strauss, Daniel (January 2014). "Hylozoism and...
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  • the history of physics, aether theories (or ether theories) proposed the existence of a medium, a space-filling substance or field as a transmission medium...
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  • Essence (category Substance theory)
    Mulamadhyamakakarika Chapter XV examines essence itself. Essence, nature, or substance in Christianity means what something is in itself and is distinguished...
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    Hypokeimenon Ousia Problem of universals Quidditism Similarity (philosophy) Substance theory Tathātā Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, London: Blackfriars, 1964–1976:...
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  • Essentialism (category Substance theory)
    In Categories, Aristotle similarly proposed that all objects have a substance that, as George Lakoff put it, "make the thing what it is, and without...
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  • objects, such as the phrase, "that person over there". Other metaphysical theories may use the terminology of universals to describe physical entities. Plato's...
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    to many particulars in such a way that it forms part of a particular's substance, as it would then be partaking of universality and particularity. However...
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    Haecceity (category Substance theory)
    called "of reality the rarest-veined unraveller", to construct his poetic theory of inscape. James Joyce made similar use of the concept of haecceitas to...
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    OCLC 367202. Archived from the original on 2011-03-21. Mark Timmons, Moral Theory: An Introduction (Rowman & Littlefield 2003 ISBN 978-0-8476-9768-7), p....
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  • Hypokeimenon (category Substance theory)
    does.: l  Bundle theory Haecceity Hypostasis (philosophy and religion) Noumenon Principle of individuation Quiddity Substance theory Thing-in-itself Aristotle...
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  • general intent is to enable the patient to confront substance dependence, if present, and stop substance misuse to avoid the psychological, legal, financial...
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  • Demiurge (category Metaphysical theories)
    Justinus, etc. The Valentinian theory elaborates that from Achamoth (he kátō sophía or lower wisdom) three kinds of substance take their origin, the spiritual...
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  • phlogiston theory of combustion in the 17th century, phlogiston was thought to be the substance of heat. There is one version of the caloric theory that was...
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  • suggest that he developed an earlier theory similar to Plato's Forms. For Pythagoras, like Plato, the substance or essence of all things was not something...
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  • as for example, one's mother or the bronze of a statue (see also substance theory). Formal cause, whereby a thing's dynamic form or static shape determines...
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    methaqualone, and opioids. The exact cause of substance abuse is sometimes clear, but there are two predominant theories: either a genetic predisposition or most...
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  • Gibson's notion of cyberspace. Desiring-production Plane of immanence Substance theory These categories were developed in A Thousand Plateaus. Demers 2006...
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  • of the Good). Aristotle's substance theory (being a substance belongs to being qua being) has been interpreted as a theory of transcendentals. Aristotle...
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