substrate

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Anglicization of substratum.

This again is no way conceivable, but by assuming as a postulate, that both are ab initio, identical and coinherent; that intelligence and being are reciprocally each other’s substrate. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He did not mean the material world, but the substrate, the intellectual world which lies in the idea of reason, and in which everything must be thought as consisting of simple substances." — Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition, John Dewey

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