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The Nature of Substance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
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The classical and scholastic view of things was of neutral substance to which qualities were attached as substantial adjuncts. Qualities could apparently not be conceived of otherwise than as entities: blueness, hardness, pliability, toughness, translucency, and so on. Noun substantives were the part of speech by which they could most properly be referred to. The use of adjectives did not imply that these qualities were not substantival entities, but emphasized their subordinateness to the thing itself, and were useful in giving pliability, lightness, and elegance to speech. But qualities could not be conceived of otherwise than as something superadded to the neutral substance which carried them.
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page 394 note 1 It is of course clear that this is a development of the theory of a four-dimensional space-time continuum, itself an aspect of Einstein's Relativity Theory. It would unduly prolong this article to study the relations between the Relativity Theory and my theory of substance.
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page 402 note 1 There is much truth in William James’s contention that one’s first duty when in the presence of apparently opposing views is to see whether there is no way by which they can be reconciled, and in his further contention that the result of such reconciliation must represent an important advance in the discovery of truth.
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