hylomorphism

hylomorphism
The doctrine that every thing is a combination of matter (materia prima ) and form. The doctrine was asserted by Aquinas, who possibly erroneously believed it to be Aristotelian, and was developed in increasingly subtle and confident ways in late scholasticism. It served as a convenient target for proponents of the 17th-century revolution in natural science, such as Boyle and Locke.

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