Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Accident

Ac′cident

A logical accident is some property or quality which a thing possesses, but which does not essentially belong to it, as the tint of our skin, the height of our body, the redness of a brick, or the whiteness of paper. If any of these were changed, the substance would remain intact.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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