entidades o sustancias

English translation: entities or substances

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Spanish term or phrase:	entidades o sustancias
English translation:	entities or substances
Entered by:	Charles Davis

13:27 Mar 26, 2013

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Spanish term or phrase: entidades o sustancias

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Context:
El significado de estos morfemas es tan básico, que permite la cuantificación tanto de conceptos concretos como de los abstractos, por lo que, a través de procesos metafóricos, tales conceptos adquieren el estatus de entidades o sustancias cuantificables.

My try: ...through metaphorical processes these concepts acquire the status of quantifiable entities or matter.

How could I translate "sustancias" in this context?
"Substances" sounds strange; "things" is a near synonym of entities so I'd need something different, and I'm not really sure about "matter".

Thanks for any suggestions.

Marian Martin (X) KudoZ activity Questions: 93 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 430 Spain
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entities or substances

Explanation:
Maybe "essences" is another possibility, but I'd go with substances, which is a standard philosophical term with a solid Aristotelian pedigree:

http://books.google.es/books?id=WBqQOqM5dfsC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA8...

You'll find lots of references to "entities and/or substances" in philosophical discourse if you look.

And more specifically, it's been used in this context too:

"Ontological metaphors [...] allow humans to view activities, emotions, ideas, etc. as quantifiable entities or substances."
http://books.google.es/books?id=pc0E3g5-vK4C&pg=PA21&lpg=PA2...

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Local time: 17:13

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Thank you again, Charles :)
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entities or substances

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Thank you again, Charles :)

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