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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/82096f37-7efa-434c-a856-942379317c93/231CE920-78F8-4969-879E-43BC36368F3C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypokeimenon&oldid=219708830" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypokeimenon&oldid=219708830" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypokeimenon&oldid=219708830"><H1 class="firstHeading">Hypokeimenon</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypokeimenon&oldid=219708830"><P><B>Hypokeimenon</B> (Greek: ὑποκείμενον) is a term in <A title="Metaphysics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics">metaphysics</A> which literally means the "underlying thing" (Latin <I>subiectum</I>).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypokeimenon&oldid=219708830"><P>To search for the hypokeimenon is to search for that <A title="Substance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance">substance</A> which persists in a thing going through change—its <A title="Essence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essence">essential</A> <A title="Being" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being">being</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypokeimenon&oldid=219708830"><P>According to <A title="Aristotle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle">Aristotle's</A> definition (in <I><A title="Categories (Aristotle)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories_%28Aristotle%29">Categories</A></I>), hypokeimenon is something which can be predicated by other things, but cannot be a predicate of others.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hypokeimenon&oldid=219708830"><P>It is conceptually similar to <A title="Baruch Spinoza" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza">Baruch Spinoza's</A> <I>substance</I> and <A title="Immanuel Kant" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant">Immanuel Kant's</A> concept of the <A title="Noumenon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noumenon">noumenon</A> (in <I><A title="The Critique of Pure Reason" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Critique_of_Pure_Reason">The Critique of Pure Reason</A></I>).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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