3628 | Substance cannot be conceived or explained to others [Gassendi on Descartes] |
16774 | Descartes thinks distinguishing substances from aggregates is pointless [Descartes, by Pasnau] |
12485 | We don't know what substance is, and only vaguely know what it does [Locke] |
7931 | If a substance is just a thing that has properties, it seems to be a characterless non-entity [Leibniz, by Macdonald,C] |
16636 | A die has no distinct subject, but is merely a name for its modes or accidents [Berkeley] |
12048 | The only meaning we have for substance is a collection of qualities [Hume] |
13424 | Aristotelians propose accidents supported by substance, but they don't understand either of them [Hume] |
11833 | The substance, once the predicates are removed, remains unknown to us [Kant] |
18981 | 'Substance' is just a word for groupings and structures in experience [James] |
14733 | An object produces the same percepts with or without a substance, so that is irrelevant to science [Russell] |
6465 | We need not deny substance, but there seems no reason to assert it [Russell] |
6471 | The assumption by physicists of permanent substance is not metaphysically legitimate [Russell] |
15304 | We can escape substance and its properties, if we take fields of pure powers as ultimate [Harré/Madden] |
7046 | Rather than 'substance' I use 'objects', which have properties [Heil] |
12252 | Empiricists gave up 'substance', as unknowable substratum, or reducible to a bundle [Oderberg] |
7932 | A phenomenalist cannot distinguish substance from attribute, so must accept the bundle view [Macdonald,C] |
7937 | When we ascribe a property to a substance, the bundle theory will make that a tautology [Macdonald,C] |
7939 | Substances persist through change, but the bundle theory says they can't [Macdonald,C] |
7940 | A substance might be a sequence of bundles, rather than a single bundle [Macdonald,C] |
16775 | For corpuscularians, a substance is just its integral parts [Pasnau] |