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The guru shook his head sadly and observed that he didn't know why people didn't understand that unless you employed a full-time squeegee man, you'd just have to live with the spots until you called him in to machine grind and hand-polish a brand new and only transitorily spotless surface. However, strategist that he was, he chose to try to build for the future rather than satisfy the urge to tear at the transitorily entrenched. The difference between the two views of nature lies in this: According to Aristotelian hylemorphism, natural substances are in the last analysis understood as composites of prime matter and of substantial forms, where the latter inhere in the former only transitorily. |
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