LessonsEntities and Accidents: Subsistence, Substance and BodyQuiz

Imagine three small constituents arranged along one straight direction. Such an arrangement conveys extension in one direction but does not by itself demonstrate independent extension in all three directions.

Number tells us how many constituents there are. Arrangement concerns their relative locations and connections. The two are not interchangeable when defining length, breadth and depth.

This is a conceptual question about the minimum condition for being a body, not an experimental measurement of contemporary material particles.

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Three parts do not settle geometric arrangement

Entities and Accidents: Subsistence, Substance and Body

Imagine three small constituents arranged along one straight direction. Such an arrangement conveys extension in one direction but does not by itself demonstrate independent extension in all three directions.

Number tells us how many constituents there are. Arrangement concerns their relative locations and connections. The two are not interchangeable when defining length, breadth and depth.

This is a conceptual question about the minimum condition for being a body, not an experimental measurement of contemporary material particles.