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    Supports→Accidents of the organism's body can remain after the organism's death, even if Scotus does not posit a forma corporeitatis.

    Accidents that inhere in bodily organs remain as long as those organs exist.

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    Scotus’s view is more complicated still, for he treats each organ of a living body as a substance (a composite of matter and substantial form). Whether Scotus also acknowledges a forma corporeitatis over and above the forms of the bodily organs is disputed (see Ward 2014, 90–93). If he does not, he must accept the unpalatable conclusion that a corpse is not the same body as the body of the organism. He can, however, avoid the conclusion that no accidents of that body remain: any accidents that i

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