LessonsEntities and Accidents: Subsistence, Substance and BodyQuiz

أن يتحيز بنفسه غير تابع تحيزه لتحيز شيء آخر
Its localization is not merely dependent upon the localization of another thing.

In this theological usage, taḥayyuz concerns being related to a spatial location. A body can move from one location to another. Its presence at a place does not thereby make it a property inhering in that place in the way a color inheres in a surface.

By contrast, a color is present in a bearer. Its relation to that bearer differs from a body's relation to where it happens to be. This prepares the distinction between an inhering attribute and its substratum.

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Taḥayyuz and spatial location

Entities and Accidents: Subsistence, Substance and Body

أن يتحيز بنفسه غير تابع تحيزه لتحيز شيء آخر
Its localization is not merely dependent upon the localization of another thing.

In this theological usage, taḥayyuz concerns being related to a spatial location. A body can move from one location to another. Its presence at a place does not thereby make it a property inhering in that place in the way a color inheres in a surface.

By contrast, a color is present in a bearer. Its relation to that bearer differs from a body's relation to where it happens to be. This prepares the distinction between an inhering attribute and its substratum.