by more than three hundred years—and for that reason they state in their book: “We marvel at anyone who rejects this after having read even a little of the philosophers’ and logicians’ writings.”

As for the linguistic issue:

The term jawhar (substance) does not belong to pristine, original Arabic; for this reason it is absent from the speech of the pure Arabs. It is, rather, a borrowed word, as al-Jawharī and others have pointed out. Al-Jawharī says, “al-jawhar is a loanword; its singular form…"