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    Philosophy must revive something like the Aristotelian notion of a substantial form

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    • 1.Preserving the notion of causal activity requires that substances are truly fundamental building blocks of reality
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    • 2.Substances cannot be truly fundamental building blocks of reality without something like a substantial form
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    • 1.Causal powers ontology (Molnar, Bird) grounds dispositional properties in objects without invoking substantial forms as metaphysically primitive.
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    • 2.If irreducible causal activity can be explained by fundamental dispositions inhering in properties rather than substances, substantial forms are explanatorily superfluous.
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    • 1.Humean regularity accounts and their neo-Humean successors (Lewis's Best Systems Analysis) reconstruct causal talk without committing to intrinsic categorical or formal essences.
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    • 2.The conceptual work Aristotelian substantial forms were designed to do—grounding identity, change, and natural kinds—is accomplished by modal structuralism and natural kind essentialism (Kripke, Putnam) without the hylomorphic apparatus.
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    One such characterization of a sufficient reason comes from Leibniz’s conviction that in order to preserve the notion of causal activity, without which substances are not really substances—i.e., truly fundamental building blocks of reality—philosophy must revive something like the ancient Aristotelian notion of a substantial form (see the discussion in the entry on Aristotle’s Metaphysics). Each genuine substance, for Leibniz, has what he calls a “primitive active force”. This force is the nat
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