Accidents: Definition, Categories and the Beginning of the Origination Argument

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• What primarily distinguishes an accident?
• What does subsistence in itself mean in this context?
• What is meant by dependence in spatial occupancy?
• What is clarified by the qualifier–qualified relation?
• Why are God’s eternal attributes distinguished from created accidents?
• What do sawād and bayāḍ exemplify?
• What does treating red, green, and yellow as basic colors illustrate?
• How does observing color change differ from a theory of color composition?
• Which are the four akwān?
• What does kawn denote in this passage?
• What distinguishes technical conjunction?
• What condition is sufficient for separation?
• Which temporal relation is central to motion?
• What is necessary to the definition of rest?
• Why is rest termed a privation by some philosophers?
• How does motion differ from conjunction?
• Which inference does not automatically follow from four names of akwān?
• How many basic types of tastes are listed?
• A food combining sweetness and sourness illustrates what?
• What follows from many odors lacking individual names?
• What is the preferred view concerning bearers of accidents other than akwān?
• What is the direct role of dividing the world into substances and accidents?
• What may directly illustrate the origination of some accidents?
• What is meant by “eternity is incompatible with nonexistence”?
• What additional premise is required to infer the origination of substances?
• What is the key claim of “whatever cannot be free of originated states is originated”?
• Distinguishing a body from its color does not make color an independent body.
• Technical separation requires a third substance to be actually present between two substances.
• In this classification, the akwān concern spatial states.
• One changing accident by itself fully proves every body originated, without further premises.