والجواهر وهي أي ما له قيام بذاته من العالم
Substances are those things in the world that subsist in themselves.
Jawhar is not used in its everyday sense of a jewel or precious stone, but as a technical category of being. A thing not treated as a color or quality inhering in another is considered within the discussion of substance.
The next question is whether a substance is composite or noncomposite. This division leads to the definitions of body and indivisible substance.
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Entities and Accidents: Subsistence, Substance and Body
والجواهر وهي أي ما له قيام بذاته من العالم
Substances are those things in the world that subsist in themselves.
Jawhar is not used in its everyday sense of a jewel or precious stone, but as a technical category of being. A thing not treated as a color or quality inhering in another is considered within the discussion of substance.
The next question is whether a substance is composite or noncomposite. This division leads to the definitions of body and indivisible substance.