Substances and Subtexts: It Helps to Know the Difference
6 min readAug 18, 2020
‘’Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.” Democritus
Substance is the physical matter around us, the undeniable, tangible things that exist around us in all their glory or unglory (is that even a word?). For example, a chair would be a substance, so would a person.