What Is a Primary Substance

Primary substances include particular living organisms, inanimate objects, and their parts. Secondary substances are the species and genera of these. … Particulars in the category of Substance are things like the individual man and the individual horse. These are primary substances.

What is a secondary substance?

The species in which the things primarily called substances are, are called secondary substances, as also are the genera of these species. For example, the individual man belongs in a species, man, and animal is a genus of the species; so these—both man and animal—are called secondary substances.

What is Aristotle's major substance?

Aristotle acknowledges that there are three candidates for being called substance, and that all three are substance in some sense or to some degree. First, there is matter, second, form and third, the composite of form and matter.