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Quotation from Categories by Aristotle
“Substance, in the truest and primary and most definite sense of the word, is that which is neither predicable of a subject nor present in a subject; for instance, the individual man or horse”
Categories, Part 5, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928)
The definition of primary substance that opens the book's longest chapter and makes the individual the foundation of the scheme.
Citation: "Substance, in the truest and primary and most definite sense of the word, is that which is neither predicable of a subject nor present in a subject; for instance, the individual man or horse" — Aristotle, Categories, Part 5, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928). (id aristotle-categories-q3)
