accident

in metaphysics, a property that the entity or substance has contingently, without which the substance can still retain its identity
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accident

Summary

accident is a metaphysical concept[1]. accident draws 88 Wikipedia views per month (metaphysical_concept category, ranking #3 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • accident's instance of is recorded as metaphysical concept[3].
  • accident's instance of is recorded as predicable[4].
  • accident's subclass of is recorded as property[5].
  • accident's opposite of is recorded as essence[6].
  • accident's opposite of is recorded as substance[7].
  • accident's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/037dzh[8].
  • accident's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX553848[9].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[11].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as The Catholic Encyclopedia[14].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[15].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4th ed.)[16].
  • accident's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/accident-philosophy[17].
  • accident's different from is recorded as accident[18].
  • accident's different from is recorded as accident fallacy[19].
  • accident's NE.se ID is recorded as accidens[20].
  • accident's Catholic Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 01096c[21].
  • accident's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as accidental-properties[22].
  • accident's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as aksidens_-_filosofi[23].
  • accident's Orthodox Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 63976[24].
  • accident's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as akzidens[25].
  • accident's Hrvatska enciklopedija ID is recorded as 1098[26].
  • accident's Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia ID is recorded as accidente[27].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include metaphysical concept[3] and predicable[4].

Why It Matters

accident draws 88 Wikipedia views per month (metaphysical_concept category, ranking #3 of 5).[2] accident has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] accident is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . datos.bne.es. datos.bne.es. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26d ago · Trade · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Otto's encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia +4
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 1808842
    Opposite of essence, substance
    Different from accident, accident fallacy
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1552]]: [[Q139580190]]"
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