Assertion: matter | /r/HasProperty | the same
Facets:
value: qualitatively
type: DEGREE
value: numerically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Although it is unclear what in general is required for the matter of two things of the same form to have the same form, e.g., for Socrates’ and Callias’ bodies to have the same form, it seems reasonable to suppose that it is sufficient for two things to have the same form that they be qualitatively the same.
text: All matter is the same because all matter is made up of atoms.
text: One might insist that no two things are qualitatively the same, but there is little reason to think that Aristotle is committed to Leibniz’s doctrine of the identity of indiscernibles.
text: While one might insist that two things must be qualitatively the same to have the same form, this also does not seem to be Aristotle’s view.
text: But they themselves are compounds of matter and form, so if their matter and form are numerically the same, they must themselves be numerically the same.