Aristotle’s distinction between substance (inner essence or reality) and accidents (outward appearance or form) is applied to the Lord’s Supper in the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.
Roger Bacon (ca. 1214-1292) applied also applied the same distinction to languages arguing that: “with respect to its substance, grammar is one and the same in all languages, although it does vary accidentally”.
Its not a very helpful way of thinking in either case.
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