like I said, I’m using classical Aristotelian terminology.

property, function, attributes, powers, accident, necessity: these words once meant something precise, common parlance has blunted the edge of discourse

accident means it could be some other way. not of necessity

like your example, it could grind grain or sharpen a stone, or it could not. what you do with it is an accident, not of necessity.

money can be used to control, or not.

thus, it’s an accident

not in the clumsy meaning of “happened accidentally”

but meaning it is an accidental attribute.

like having brown hair, it’s an attribute of my hair, but it could have been different.

i am 6’ tall, but i could have been 5’11” or 6’1”

in the singular act of human beings exchanging through a medium, money is brought into existence: MoE, SoV, UoA occur necessarily, could not be any other way

if that doesnt make sense to you, i can’t explain it any simpler

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