1. Aristotle - Substance and Essence
When Aristotle says substance in the truest and primary and most definite of the word, is that "which is neither predicable of a subject nor presents in a subject", he is saying that physical things are a substance and there would always be something to describe them in other words a predicate from a subject but substances themselves cannot be predicates with other substances. ... Aristotle talked about secondary substances which were characteristics of primary substances. ... Considering his point of view this would be true because taking away the characteristics and qualities from something ...
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