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What does hylomorphism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The doctrine that every physical substance is the sum of its component matter and the form taken by that matter.
  2. (computer science) composition of an anamorphism and a catamorphism
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What is guiding Chretien is an embodied concept of person, very close, if not identical, to Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism.
One might therefore expect universal hylomorphism to be the doctrine that all substances consist of forms in matter.
Scotus elaborates a distinct view on hylomorphism, with three important strong theses that differentiate him.
To account for hylomorphism noetically is to consider objects primarily through a description of epistemic faculties.
The solution involving hylomorphism is, on this reading, only directed at the problem of composites.
Nor does Dietrich wish to distinguish God from creatures by postulating a theory of universal hylomorphism.

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