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God, Creation, and the Act of Existence | Prof. Gaven Kerr

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Aristotle's Analysis of Change

Aristotelian hyalomorphism gives us a metaphysical account of how substances are constituted. A material substance is a formed particular that has some sort of form. Matter and form for Aristotle, they're related as potency and act. So in this view, we have a composite of matter and form, and that's an individual substance. And that's sort of the Aristotelian holomorphic view. We okay so far? Ooh, who went in at the defense, didn't we? There we go.

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