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Episode 12 – Introduction to Metaphysics - Form and Matter/Substance and Accidents | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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Substance Ontology - The Diversity of Qualities and Quantities

According to Aquinas, our world is complex. Quality and quantity are irreducibly distinct from one another but they only exist within and as the properties of a given substance. Your height is not your intelligence. Your relationship to your father is not your height. And is not a mere construct of our perceiving mind.

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