Hypokeimenon

Hypokeimenon (Greek ὑποκείμενον hypokeimenon; Latin subiectum or substratum " the base ", "the Underlying ", " the carrier " ) is a term from ancient Greek philosophy.

For the first time there is this concept that Anaximander Anaximenes and but also in Democritus. Its full spectrum not yet developed the concept in Plato, but only in Aristotle (especially in the category of writing).

In Aristotle referred hypokeimenon that which is predicated of the thing because it as the Underlying - insists the change of states - as a substrate or subject. From hypokeimenon everything is predicated rest of it myself but it is not predicated of another. The hypokeimenon in itself is entirely free of all rules ( properties). Due to its own characterlessness it is suitable to be carriers of different added passing properties. Substrate is particularly the indeterminate matter which accommodates changing forms.

Hypokeimenon The Greek word translated into Latin subiectum Boethius. The Latin subiectum was originally understood to be stable Present thing (even the sentence -subject in the grammar ). Only by the French philosopher René Descartes was based on the ego, which became his indubitable foundation of all other knowledge.