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1 I, 1 | coming to-be, though it is impossible for them to do so consistently 2 I, 1 | than one make "alteration" impossible. For "alteration, as we 3 I, 2 | coming-to-be is "association", many impossible consequences result: and 4 I, 2 | method whatever: nothing impossible will have resulted if it 5 I, 2 | innumerable times. Nothing impossible will have resulted, though 6 I, 2 | A magnitude? No: that is impossible, since then there will be 7 I, 2 | Since, therefore, it is impossible for magnitudes to consist 8 I, 2 | confronted with equally impossible consequences, which we have 9 I, 2 | hand, it would seem to be impossible for a body to be, even potentially, 10 I, 3 | of the material. That is impossible, for nothing is actually 11 I, 5 | another body?~Perhaps it is impossible for growth to take place 12 I, 5 | of these alternatives is impossible. For since what comes-to-be 13 I, 5 | as in a vessel. This is impossible. For (i) there is nothing 14 I, 5 | former work" that this is impossible. Moreover, a change of that 15 I, 5 | have stated before)" is impossible for a matter of magnitude 16 I, 5 | same place: and this too is impossible.~But neither is it open 17 I, 5 | body." Yet this too is impossible. For our account of growth 18 I, 7 | Perhaps, indeed, it is impossible that "the hot" should exist 19 I, 8 | genuinely-many a "one": that is impossible. But" (just as Empedocles 20 I, 8 | this last alternative is impossible: for then there will be 21 I, 8 | is their character, it is impossible they should not be affected 22 I, 8 | uniform. And it is equally impossible (iii) that more than one 23 I, 8 | medium" be correct? It is impossible for (the visual ray) to 24 I, 8 | at their "contacts"; and impossible for it to pass through their 25 I, 9 | makes growth and diminution impossible also. For if there is to 26 I, 9 | processes can occur from the (impossible) way in which some thinkers 27 I, 10| to some thinkers, it is impossible for one thing to be combined 28 I, 10| of the other: for it is impossible for them to be thus divided. 29 II, 1 | are-back to "planes", and it is impossible for "the Nurse" (i.e. the 30 II, 1 | alteration" would then have been impossible), whereas the contrarieties 31 II, 3 | to be coupled: for it is impossible for the same thing to be 32 II, 5 | cold something: hence it is impossible for Fire to be "hot Air", 33 II, 5 | into one another, it is impossible for any one of them-whether 34 II, 5 | if that be so, it will be impossible to define any "element": 35 II, 5 | to define any "element": impossible also for any to come-to-be. 36 II, 6 | that it makes even growth impossible, unless it be increase by 37 II, 9 | necessity of their nature, it is~impossible for the first not to he 38 II, 9 | the first not to he and impossible for the second to~he. Other 39 II, 11| solstices shall come-to-be, i.e. impossible that they should fail to 40 II, 11| last two alternatives is impossible if coming-to-be is to be