Matter


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1 The conception of matter as a principle of change and as one constituent of the being of changing things, the receptacle or substratum.
2 Matter and the analysis of change, prime and secondary matter, privation and form, participation and the receptacle.
3 Matter in relation to the kinds of change, substantial and accidental change, terrestrial and celestial motion.
4 Matter and the distinction between individual and universal, signate and common matter, sensible and intelligible matter.
5 The conception of matter as extension, as a bodily substance, or as a mode of substance, atoms and compound bodies.
6 The properties of matter, hypotheses concerning its constitution, the wave and particle properties of matter.
7 The equivalence of mass and energy.
8 The motions of bodies.
9 Matter as the support of sensible qualities.
10 The diremption of body and mind, or matter and spirit.
11 The existence of matter.
12 Matter as the sole existent, materialism, atomism.
13 Matter as the most imperfect grade of being or reality.
14 Matter as a fiction of the mind.
15 The relation of God to matter, the creation of matter and its motions.
16 Matter as an object or condition of knowledge.
17 The knowability of matter, by sense, by reason.
18 The role of matter in the concepts and definitions of the several sciences, the grades of abstraction in physics, mathematics, and metaphysics.
19 The material conditions of sensation, imagination, and memory.
20 The material conditions of thought, the relation of matter to the existence and acts of the mind.
21 Matter in relation to good and evil.
22 Criticisms of materialism and its consequences.


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