Episode Synopsis "Nature, Art, Chance and Substance - "Metaphsyics" Book Z.7-8"

According to Plato, the "really real" could never be destroyed or created. Aristotle holds that they can be created from previously existing form and matter, and that this can happen by nature.His arguments for this are pretty subtle, and are necessary for refuting idealism and asserting the reality of the physical world.

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