Assertion: matter | /r/HasProperty | distinct
Facets:
value: from the matter of another
type: OTHER
value: numerically
type: MANNER
value: from callias’ matter
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: It is perfectly consistent to say that Socrates is one man because of his form, which unifies his matter into a single whole, and he is a numerically distinct individual from Callias because his matter is numerically distinct from Callias’ matter.
text: Both sides agree that explanation must stop somewhere, but they differ over where it is appropriate to stop: is it a basic, inexplicable fact that Socrates is numerically distinct from Callias, or that their matter is distinct?
text: For if the matter of one be distinct from the matter of another, it follows that either the form is the principle of the distinction of matter
text: —that is to say, that the matter is distinct on account of its relation to divers forms; and even then there would result a difference of species and inequality of nature: or else the matter is the principle of the distinction of forms.