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    It is not the case that Accidents of the organism's body can remain after the organism's death, even if Scotus does not posit a forma corporeitatis.

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    • 1.For Aristotle and the Scholastic tradition, accidents inhere in a substance qua unified composite of matter and form, not in matter alone.
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    • 2.When the substantial form departs at death, the remaining matter lacks the formal unity required to constitute a genuine substance capable of sustaining accidents.
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    • 3.Without a forma corporeitatis, Scotus has no alternative formal principle to ground the post-mortem persistence of organs as genuine substances.
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    • 1.Aquinas argues that the matter remaining after death is numerically different from the living body's matter, since substantial form individuates and unifies material parts.
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    • 2.If post-mortem organs are not numerically identical to ante-mortem organs, any accidents they bear are new accidents of new substances, not retained accidents of the organism's body.
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    • 1.Accidents that inhere in bodily organs remain as long as those organs exist.
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    • 2.Scotus treats each bodily organ as a substance that continues to exist for a time after the organism dies.
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    • 3.Substances can retain their accidents so long as the substance itself persists.
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