Originally posted by JimL
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Depending on how deeply you want to delve into quantum mechanics, there is a lot less "substance" in matter than appears to our senses. The great majority of the space inside an atom is very sparsely populated with the probability distributions of the shell electrons.
The "substance" I do reject is the philosophical construct, such as Thomist 'Substance' as opposed to 'Accident'. In those terms I accept 'Accident, but not 'Substance'. If you remove the Accident atom by atom then there is no Thomist Substance remaining after the last atom has been removed.
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