| 单词 | secondary substance |
| 释义 | > as lemmassecondary substance f. secondary substance (Philosophy): (esp. in Aristotelian thought) a generic or universal type or species, which is exemplified by individual entities, and does not exist independently except as the aggregate of its members; cf. primary substance n. at primary adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > being or entity > that exists by itself substance1340 subject1387 ens reale1565 individual1582 suppositum1593 supposite1612 substantiala1631 secondary substance1774 absolute1858 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. 1893 Presbyterian Q. 7 140 Spinoza, in his denial of the Cartesian distinction between primary and secondary substance, laid the foundation for the whole course of modern pantheistic speculation. 2002 P. Allen Concept of Woman II. ii. 76 Neither ‘a woman’ as a primary substance nor ‘woman’ as a secondary substance appears as an example in Aristotle's logical texts. < as lemmas |
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