Abstract
PHILOSOPHY takes account of the meaning of things. At the present time, it is partly occupied with new conceptions of the structure of the material universe, or matter, in terms of theoretical physics. Among the papers in the current issue of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society - mainly devoted to dialectical discussions of classical themes or there-statement of old problems - attention may be directed to three. The,Rev. Leslie Walker's “New Theory of Matter”—new, in the sense of its being pre-Aristotelian - is (he says) an attempt to deduce from relatively simple first principles the laws of co-existence and sequence which have been found experimentally to hold good between observed changes in the sphere both of quantity and quality. He finds that the essence of a thing lies in the fundamental structure or ratio - forma substantialis- which holds between the potentialities themselves.
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
New Series, Vol. 23: Containing the Papers read before the Society during the Forty-fourth Session, 1922–1923. Pp. ii + 289. (London: Williams and Norgate, 25s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 112, 756–757 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112756c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112756c0
