Potens per accidens sine accidentibus: Ockham on Material Substances and Their Essential Powers

Abstract Medieval scholastics share a commitment to a substance-accident ontology and to an analysis of efficient causation in which agents act in virtue of their powers. Given these commitments, it seems ready-made which entities are the agents or powers: substances are agents and their accidents p...

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Main Author: Simpson, Daniel J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Vivarium
Year: 2021, Volume: 59, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 102-122
Further subjects:B William of Ockham
B Causal powers
B efficient causation
B Substance
B Essence
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