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Substance, Accident, and Modes

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This entry presents the Aristotelian distinction between substance and accident and the interpretational problems it generated for medieval philosophers and theologians. A survey of the extensional and intensional problems of the distinction and some of the solutions proposed for them will lead to an analysis of the theoretical need to introduce the new ontological category of modes in late-medieval philosophy, paving the way to the abandonment of substance–accident metaphysics in early modern philosophy.

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Klima, G. (2018). Substance, Accident, and Modes. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1151-5_475-2

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