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It is impossible to overstate Aristotle’s importance in the development of Western thought. A student of Plato, Aristotle quickly distinguished himself from his teacher by rejecting the theory of forms—the belief that the characteristics of any physical thing (roundness, redness) exist apart from it in an abstract realm of forms. Aristotle taught that forms could not be properly understood apart...
Everything except primary substances is either predicable of a primary substance or present in a primary substance. [35] This becomes evident by reference to particular instances which occur. ‘Animal’ is predicated of the species ‘man’, therefore of the individual man, for if there were no individual man of whom it could be predicated, it could not [2b] be predicated of the species ‘man’ at all. Again, colour is present in body, therefore in individual bodies, for if there were no individual body
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