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The philosophical term, accident has been employed throughout the history of philosophy with several distinct meanings. In Aristotle's theory of the substance of objects, the concept of accident plays an important role in clarifying what he does not mean by substance. For Aristotle, accidents are the perceptible qualities of an object such as its color, texture, size, shape, et cetera. St. Thomas Aquinas employed the Aristotelian concepts of substance and accident in articulating the theology of the Eucharist, particularly Transubstantiation. In summary, the accidents (appearances) of the bread and wine do not change, but their substance changes from bread and wine to the Body and Blood of Christ. In modern philosophy, an accident (or accidental property) is the union of two concepts property and contingency.
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