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Quotation from Categories by Aristotle
“The most distinctive mark of substance appears to be that, while remaining numerically one and the same, it is capable of admitting contrary qualities”
Categories, Part 5, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928)
The test that distinguishes substance from every other category; a colour cannot become its contrary, but a person can become warm or cold, good or bad, and remain the same person.
Citation: "The most distinctive mark of substance appears to be that, while remaining numerically one and the same, it is capable of admitting contrary qualities" — Aristotle, Categories, Part 5, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928). (id aristotle-categories-q5)
