Substance

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In philosophy, substance means, approximately, that element of an object without which it would not exist. In the millennia-old Aristotelian tradition, as well as early modern traditions that follow it, substances are treated as having attributes and modes.

See objecthood and substance theory.

See also: chemical substance

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Substance" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance, used under the GNU Free Documentation License