Footnote zt3

zt3. In 1918, Russell said on the subject of the "self-subsistence of particulars" that "each particular has its being independently of any other and does not depend upon anything else for the logical possibility of its existence," adding: "I compared particulars with the old conception of substance, that is to say, they have the quality of self-subsistence that used to belong to substance, but not the quality of persistence through time. A particular, as a rule, is apt to last for a very short time indeed, not an instant but a very short time. In that respect particulars differ from the old substances but in their logical position they do not."

-- from The Philosophy of Logical Atomism by Bertrand Russell (1918).

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