| 单词 | primary substance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprimary substance primary substance n. Philosophy (esp. in Aristotelian thought) a distinct individual entity, to which properties and attributes can be ascribed; = substance n. 2; cf. substance n. 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [noun] > substantiality or subsistence > substance or being being1340 substance1340 essencea1398 materialitya1529 stuff1587 subject1590 timber1612 primary substance1774 1774 H. Home Sketches Hist. of Man III. 155 Substances are either primary, to wit, individual substances, or secondary, to wit, the genera and species of substances. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 223/1 The first category is subdivided into..primary substance, which is defined to be..the singular thing in which properties inhere, and to which predicates are attached, and..genera or species which can be predicated of primary substances. 1901 O. J. Thatcher Ideas that have influenced Civilization II. 348 It belongs also to substance that there is no contrary to them, since what can be contrary to the primary substance, as to a certain ‘man’, or to a certain ‘animal’, for there is nothing contrary either at least to ‘man’ or to ‘animal’? 2000 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 100 308 Each individual entity, or primary substance, is conceived as a compound of matter and form. < as lemmas |
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