Aristotle believed that matter's behavior is essentially affected by its form, meaning that while matter is a necessary condition for a substance, the nature of a substance does not follow from its matter alone.

Authors

• Person: Howard Robinson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition)

Sources

• Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

Referenced by nodes (4)

• matter concept
• Aristotle entity
• form concept
• substance concept