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FEDERA
INCIPIT VITA NOVA
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II-1 Formal ontology and corporations
■ First attempt:
Are corporations substances?
1. Corporations do not depend of other entities
unless constitutive entities
2. Corporations remain numerically one and the same
3. Corporations can only indirectly stand in
causal relations via their members
4. Corporations do not exist by a natural process
5. Corporations are composed by substances,
which are their members
Corporations are not exactly ARISTOTELIAN SUBSTANCES
What are substances? (Smith, 1997)
1. Substances exist on their own; accidents require a
support from substances in order to exist
2. Substances remain numerically one and the
same; they can admit accidents at different times
3. Substances are able to stand in causal relations
4. Substances are 'one by a process of nature'
5. Substance has no proper parts which are
themselves substances
Prof. Mauricio B. Almeida - [email protected] - Federal University of Minas Gerais
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