I might have this formulation wrong but I was wondering where in Aristotle is the distinction between matter and substance? For example, I thought he made the point that mind was substance but not matter? — DS1517
In Z3, Aristotle considers the claim of matter to be substance, and rejects it. Substance must be separable and a this something (usually translated, perhaps misleadingly, as “an individual”). — Aristotle on Substance, Matter, and Form
Ζ.3 begins with a list of four possible candidates for being the substance of something: essence, universal, genus, and subject. ... In the Categories, individual substances (a man, a horse) were treated as fundamental subjects of predication. ... This horse is a primary substance, and horse, the species to which it belongs, is a secondary substance. — Aristotle's Metaphysics - SEP
Aristotle describes mind (nous, often also rendered as “intellect” or “reason”) as “the part of the soul by which it knows and understands” (De Anima iii 4, 429a9–10; cf. iii 3, 428a5; iii 9, 432b26; iii 12, 434b3), thus characterizing it in broadly functional terms. — Aristotle's Psychology - SEP
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