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This more basic form which supports the other forms is the substantial form. Aquinas distinguishes between artifacts and natural substances to justify positing these more basic, imperceptible forms in his Commentary on Aristotle ’s Metaphysics, Book VII, lesson 2. While he repeats the analogies Aristotle draws between the bronze of the statue and matter on the one hand, and the figure of the statue and “the specifying form” on the other, he claims that Aristotle does not intend this as an exact analogy.
P. 326. 4 34 Aquinas’ introduction of the substantial form before it can take on sensible, unstable forms like whiteness. This more basic form which supports the other forms is the substantial form. Aquinas distinguishes between artifacts and natural substances to justify positing these more basic, imperceptible forms in his Commentary on Aristotle ’s Metaphysics, Book VII, lesson 2. While he repeats the analogies Aristotle draws between the bronze of the statue and matter on the one hand, and the figure of the statue and “the specifying form” on the other, he claims that Aristotle does not intend this as an exact analogy.
On this reading, since Aristotle holds that the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, can transmute into one another, there must be a common underlying matter devoid of all form that can take on any of the elemental forms . This matter, Aquinas concludes, must then be nothing but pure potentiality – in other words, it is the sheer capacity for acquiring any form whatsoever. Since for Aristotle and Aquinas nothing can actually exist without form , we encounter only informed matter in the world – never prime matter .