Physics: Form and Matter

Form and Matter

A: Form: Reality includes fixed, relatively stable forms that enclose all matter, and make the world intelligible.
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B: Matter: Reality includes matter which provides its content or substance and is a substrate for change.
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-B: Reality is Being, which is unchangeable (Parmenides). Reality is only found in fixed, unchanging forms or ideals (Plato). All matter reduces to mathematical forms (Heisenberg).
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-A: Reality is only matter; fixity of form is an illusion; everything is in flux (Heraclitus).
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Overview of this dialogic diagram

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