Matter, form, and the compound of matter and form may all be considered subjects, Aristotle tells us, (1029a2 4), but which of them is substance?
So, now we have not one but three potential candidates for primary substance: form, matter, and the compound of matter and form.
For the subject that he here envisages, he says, is either matter or form or the compound of matter and form.
Yet with the advent of hylomorphism, these primary substances are revealed to be metaphysical complexes: Socrates is a compound of matter and form.
In the crucial middle books of the Metaphysics Seven and Eight we have an analysis of substance which takes off from material substance, which is a compound of matter and form, and arrives at a notion of substance as form alone.
While they are numerically one physical object, they are two hylomorphic compounds, that is, two compounds of form and matter, sharing their matter.
Since individual substances are seen as hylomorphic compounds, the role of matter and form in their generation must be accounted for.
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Humic substances (HS) are complex and heterogeneous compounds of humified organic matter resulting from the chemical and microbiological decomposition of organic residues.
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