Aristotle's hylomorphism in De Anima entails that matter individuated by a single form suffices to explain the organized complexity of living bodies without ontological redundancy.
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When many different parts work together in a coordinated way to create a functioning whole, like how organs, tissues, and cells are arranged in a living body.
Redundancy(in logic systems)
When two different methods or systems do the exact same job, making one of them unnecessary or wasteful.
form(Descartes retains scholastic terminology despite breaking with scholastic metaphysics)
Used in the original scholastic non-geometric sense — atemporal and aspatial; not a spatial or geometric property
hylomorphism(The position Valla attacks as demoting the soul's dignity)
The Aristotelian account of the soul as a form-matter composite, implying that the soul comes at the end of a chain of transmission from outer objects to a receptive tabula rasa.
individuated(Chodorow's account of boys' psychological development)
Feeling oneself to be separate or distinct from others, as a result of identifying with an absent parent
matter(Kant's critical epistemology, agreeing with Leibniz on this point)
Not a thing in itself with mind-independent characteristics, but an appearance — objects as presented to human perception, characterized by shape, contact, and movement.