Article ID: CBB229201196

Making Room for Particulars: Plato’s Receptacle as Space, Not Substratum (2016)

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The “traditional” interpretation of the Receptacle in Plato’s Timaeus maintains that its parts act as substrata to ordinary particulars such as dogs and tables: particulars are form-matter compounds to which Forms supply properties and the Receptacle supplies a substratum, as well as a space in which these compounds come to be. I argue, against this view, that parts of the Receptacle cannot act as substrata for those particulars. I also argue, making use of contemporary discussions of supersubstantivalism, against a substratum interpretation that separates substratum and space in the Timaeus.

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Authors & Contributors
Healow, C. G.
Werner, Daniel
Elaine Landry
Wolfsdorf, David
Vuillemin, Jules
Taylor, C. C. W.
Journals
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Classical World
Ancient Philosophy
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Union Institute and University
Walter de Gruyter
University Press of America
University of California Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Philosophy
Soul (philosophy)
Metaphysics
Language and languages
Conventionalism (philosophy)
Stoicism
People
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
Lévinas, Emmanuel
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
Pythagoras
Time Periods
Ancient
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
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