Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Extension is not an accident but an essential and insepar... — Carmelics
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Modality & Possibility
    HistoryEditSee Inverse

    Extension is not an accident but an essential and inseparable differentia of 'the three-dimensional'.

    Modality & PossibilityTruth & Knowledge
    ?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.
    1 reason for
    2 reasons against

    Reasons For

    1 perspective
    Reason for
    ?
    • 1.If extension were an accident belonging to the Aristotelian category of quantity, it would require a distinct underlying subject.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Heat is an essential and inseparable differentia of fire, not an accident of it.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Whiteness is an essential and inseparable differentia of snow, not an accident of it.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    2 perspectives
    Reason against 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Aristotle's Categories distinguishes essential properties from accidental ones by genus-species relations, not by inseparability alone.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Extension can be inseparable from body without being a differentia, since inseparability is a necessary but not sufficient condition for differentiae.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Porphyry's Isagoge establishes that inseparable accidents (e.g., the crow's blackness) remain accidents despite their necessary co-presence with a subject.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason against 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.The analogy between heat-fire and extension-body fails because heat individuates fire within a genus, whereas extension is predicated universally across all corporeal genera.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Aquinas argues in De Ente et Essentia that quantitative extension follows from matter as a principle of individuation, making it a consequent property rather than a constitutive differentia.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.A genuine differentia must restrict a genus to a species, but extension does not restrict 'the three-dimensional' to any species—it exhausts the genus entirely, collapsing the differentia-genus distinction.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.

    Topics

    Modality & PossibilityTruth & Knowledge

    Related

    A genuine differentia must restrict a genus to a species, but extension does not...Aquinas argues in De Ente et Essentia that quantitative extension follows from m...Aristotle's Categories distinguishes essential properties from accidental ones b...Extension can be inseparable from body without being a differentia, since insepa...
    +6 moreShow less
    Extension stands in the same relation to 'the three-dimensional' as heat does to...Heat is an essential and inseparable differentia of fire, not an accident of it.If extension were an accident belonging to the Aristotelian category of quantity...Porphyry's Isagoge establishes that inseparable accidents (e.g., the crow's blac...The analogy between heat-fire and extension-body fails because heat individuates...Whiteness is an essential and inseparable differentia of snow, not an accident o...

    Similar

    Extension is an essential and inseparable differentia of 'the three-di...89%Heat is an essential and inseparable differentia of fire, not an accid...81%Extension stands in the same relation to 'the three-dimensional' as he...76%Unity is accidental in the sense of extra-essential76%

    Source

    AI-extracted1/3 agreementValid
    SEP: philoponus
    View source passageHide passage
    Like place, space as a whole is the indeterminate three-dimensional extension everywhere devoid of body, though it is not actually infinite – so much Philoponus concedes to Aristotle. Philoponus’ discussion of matter builds upon this conception of space. In the Physics commentary (687f.) he argues in a similar vein to Aristotle in Metaphysics VII 3: In abstracting all qualities and other determinations from body Aristotle arrived at a conception of characterless, undetermined matter, an idea of
    Extraction notes

    Validity: Extracted via Max plan + API grounding/validity checks

    Details

    Type
    claim
    Perspectives
    3 (1 for, 2 against)
    Edits
    1 edit