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    Matter and form must be mentioned in any full explanation of the world's workings.

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    • 1.Matter and form are mind-independent features of the world.
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    • 2.Any full explanation of the world must account for mind-independent features of the world.
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    • 1.Modern physics explains the world's workings through fields, forces, and mathematical structures with no reference to Aristotelian matter or form.
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    • 2.If a complete scientific explanation of phenomena requires no appeal to matter-form composition, then matter and form are not necessary components of full explanation.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that form is a contribution of the mind's structuring activity, not an intrinsic feature of mind-independent reality.
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    • 2.If form is epistemically imposed rather than ontologically discovered, then Premise 1 of the supporting argument is false, and the inference to necessity collapses.
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    For these reasons, Aristotle intends his hylomorphism to be much more than a simple explanatory heuristic. On the contrary, he maintains, matter and form are mind-independent features of the world and must, therefore, be mentioned in any full explanation of its workings.
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