| 10947 | Whiteness can be explained without man, but femaleness cannot be explained without animal [Aristotle] |
| 16644 | The features of a thing (whether quality or quantity) are inseparable from their subjects [Aristotle] |
| 14044 | The perceived accidental properties of bodies cannot be conceived of as independent natures [Epicurus] |
| 14045 | Accidental properties give a body its nature, but are not themselves bodies or parts of bodies [Epicurus] |
| 16645 | Accidents are diminished beings, because they are dispositions of substance (unqualified being) [Henry of Ghent] |
| 16643 | Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura] |
| 11201 | Properties have an incomplete essence, with definitions referring to their subject [Aquinas] |
| 16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
| 16665 | There are entities, and then positive 'modes', modifying aspects outside the thing's essence [Suárez] |
| 16666 | A mode determines the state and character of a quantity, without adding to it [Suárez] |
| 16668 | Modes of things exist in some way, without being full-blown substances [Gassendi] |
| 16730 | If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi] |
| 16670 | Accidents are just modes of thinking about bodies [Hobbes] |
| 17171 | A 'mode' is an aspect of a substance, and conceived through that substance [Spinoza] |
| 16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
| 18353 | Modes are beings that are related both to substances and to universals [Lowe] |
| 16662 | The biggest question for scholastics is whether properties are real, or modes of substances [Pasnau] |