RE: A question about Thomism
August 10, 2023 at 12:08 am
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2023 at 12:21 am by Belacqua.)
(August 10, 2023 at 12:00 am)LinuxGal Wrote:(August 9, 2023 at 11:38 pm)Belacqua Wrote: A T-shirt is ontologically prior to its color. If its color stopped existing (e.g. if you dyed it) the T-shirt would still exist. But if the T-shirt stopped existing (e.g. if you burned it) its color would also stop existing.
Yet red is prior to the t-shirt. When you first see the t-shirt, you judge it to have the attribute of red on the basis of having previously seen other red things.
We're talking about a quality of the shirt. Not the existence of red itself.
Did you read the Wikipedia article?
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/depen...tological/