Substitute
A substitute is a “under-equivalent”, of less quality, a subject considered. It is of pale a Copie, a Substitut little, even at all, effective or of a subject not very convincing Dénaturé.
Etymology
The word “substitute” comes from the language German E, in which it means “substitute product”. The phonetic writing is.The Second world war indeed pushed German chemical industry to work out many substitutes of products become inalienable: for example the Buna to replace the rubber.
During the Revolution and the Empire, many substitute products were requested from the scientists:
- the graphite-lead mixture thus replaced pure graphite in the lead pencils (Conté), creating thus various ranks noted HB on our modern pencils;
- the Indigo;
- the Sugar of beet for the cane sugar.
The Celluloïd would have been developed during the American Civil War, the Blocus imposed on the Sudistes having made impossible the importation of the Ivoire of elephant, with which one made hitherto the balls of Billard.
Substitute in the daily life
A substitute is a substitute product of a product become difficult to find, but which replaces it imperfectly. One says also a Succédané. Example: the chicorey is an ersatz coffee.
Substitute in medicine
In Medicine, a substitute is a substitute of less quality of a pharmaceutical substance. Attention, one should not operate of amalgam with the generic medicines which are especially not substitutes of the Médicament S of patented marks.
Substitute in philosophy
In Philosophy, a substitute is an element representative of a nonsignificant whole of this whole. It is of a piece, a piece, of a detail, which, considered individually, represents the unit in an unimportant way, deformed by reduction or simplification and disregarding the relativity of the whole. Example: a substitute of knowledge means a limited knowledge, an end of knowledge or a detail which do not have any possible credibility since being unaware of any relativity with Knowledge in general, since being unaware of if this piece of knowledge considered individually is not null and void relative with real and total knowledge known.
See too
- Succedaneous
- synthetic sweetening substance
- Gasoline