Form and Matter | |
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A: Form: Reality includes fixed, relatively
stable forms that enclose all matter, and make the world
intelligible. |
B: Matter: Reality includes matter which provides
its content or substance and is a substrate for change.
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-B: Reality is Being, which is unchangeable
(Parmenides). Reality is only found in fixed, unchanging
forms or ideals (Plato). All matter reduces to mathematical
forms (Heisenberg).
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-A: Reality is only matter; fixity of form is an
illusion; everything is in flux (Heraclitus).
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