Sentence examples for material particulars from inspiring English sources

The Affinity Argument points to the complexity of material particulars.

Here Plato draws a contrast between unchanging Forms and changing material particulars.

(In the late dialogues, especially the Timaeus and Philebus, Plato attempts to give a systematic account of material particulars).

At first blush, it seems that there are two kinds of subjects of which properties are predicated, namely Forms and material particulars.

Aristotle's account of Plato's reasons for introducing Forms indicates that change and essence are critical to Plato's thinking about the deficiency of material particulars.

Whereas Plato treated the abstract as more real than material particulars, in the Categories Aristotle takes material particulars as ontological bedrock — to the extent that being a primary substance makes something more real than anything else, entities such as Socrates and a horse are the most real entities in Aristotle's worldview.

Moreover, must not every material particular be related to matter?

So, for instance, every material particular must be related to a particular.

Here again, then, the assumption of the material particular is relevant.

The determinacy of the material particular is set against the non-determinacy of the Form.

Because a material particular is composite, it is also multi-form or complex (Phaedo 80b4).