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How to Think Like a Thomist: Substance and Accidents

How to Think Like a Thomist: Substance and Accidents

Tuesday, November 25, 2025
The world is not a place of static individuals, but of active realities. Thomas Aquinas thought that all of reality could be classified according to the distinction between substance and accident. For Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, substances are not inert or static entities. Whatever exists is active, and the more being a thing has, the…