RE: Thomism: Then & Now
October 27, 2021 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2021 at 11:48 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
A substantial change to the whole does not require any substantial change in the parts. Try this. State A of the whole is that of a chair. State B of the whole is as a heap of wooden sticks. The Operation is when the chair becomes a heap. That "movement" from A to B does not mean that the wooden sticks must also undergo the further substantial change of rotting to dust. The substance, wooden stick, is a lower level composite with its own set of causes.
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