Matter and Objecthood Disentangled

Dialogue 28 (1):17- (1989)
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The concept of matter is not, I urge, reducible to the concept of an object. This is to be distingusihed from the counterintuitive Aristotelian claim that matter depends for its existence on objects which it constitutes.

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Substance: The Constitution of Reality.P. M. S. Hacker - 1979 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4 (1):239-261.
On the usefulness of quantities.Kathleen C. Cook - 1975 - Synthese 31 (3-4):443 - 457.

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