BOOK VIII

The Principles of Sensible Substances:

Matter and Form

CONTENTS

Book VIII

Lesson 1. Sensible Substances Have Different Kinds of Matter

Lesson 2. Form Is Inferred from the Accidental Differences of Sensible Substances. The Definitions of Matter, Form and Composite

Lesson 3. The Nature of Form as Part of a Thing's Essence. The Resemblance between Numbers and Forms

Lesson 4. What We Must Know about Matter. How Matter Is Found in All Things

Lesson 5. Why Definitions and Matters Are Unities. The Union of Matter and Form