ABSTRACT
One could hardly do good science even within the longest of dreams. Indeed, one can hardly make any plans or predictions in one dream that will carry over reliably to the next dream, or even to the next moment. The agency is diminished in the dreams, too. If people deliberate or act with intention, there again they find only a pale imitation of what transpires in waking life. But people can imagine all of these differences removed as well. Attributes are just properties. Sometimes philosophers use the term “attribute” to signal their adherence to a particular conception of properties—for example, that properties modify the things that have them rather than belonging to them as constituents or having them as members. The term “hylomorphism” derives from two Greek roots: hyle which means “matter”, and morphe, which means “form”. The hylomorphic theory of substance has its origins in Aristotle.
