So, you know, Mark Twain once read his own obituary in the newspaper, and he said,

the reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated in this. I think the reports of the demise of

Aristotelianism are also greatly exaggerated. So one of the projects I've been working on, his father

alluded to the last 10 years or so, is to argue that the quantum revolution is actually a huge vindication of Aristotle.

Heisenberg, actually, was one who recognized this in physics and philosophy.

He said what quantum mechanics have done has actually rediscovered potentiia,

the Aristotelian notion of potentiality.

And there are many different aspects of this vindication.

And I'm only going to be able to talk about one today because of the shortage of time.

So I'm going to talk about the existence of large-scale substances, things that are not just microscopic, but like human science, for instance.

Substances as real parts of the world.

So in particular I'm going to focus on inorganic or non-living substances in this particular

talk, and I'll explain why in a few minutes.

So let's see.

Here's the overview.

I'm going to explain why we need inorganic substances in the Aristotelian framework.

Why quantum particles and also atoms and molecules, I think, cannot be substances.

Briefly discuss the philosophical role of substantial form and how that plays a role in modern science,

and then get to the heart of it, chemical substances in quantum mechanics and make my sort of case for the existence of large-scale substances.

So, you know, the project here is to look at the Art-Pertilian framework

and to see to what extent we can apply it to modern understanding of nature, modern science.

And so as you look at that Earth-Patillion framework, you can think of this, I think of it as three or four layers.

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