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Abstract
I analyze the Hylomorphism Argument in the anonymous Destructions of the Modes of Signifying (DMS), which attempts to reduce the Modist Inherence Thesis (MIT) to absurdity. I note that the Hylomorphism Argument rests on a misunderstanding of MIT, which posits distinct hylomorphic ways that modes inhere, rather than distinct hylomorphic modes. These hylomorphic inherence relations can be seen to ground the derivation scheme among modes and therefore the correspondence relation appealed to in the Modist Correspondence Thesis (MCT). This results in a formulation of MCT that more accurately represents Thomas of Erfurt’s understanding of it than the caricatures appealed to in the DMS author’s anti-modist arguments.