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Aristotle
On the Generation and Corruption

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points

   Book, Paragraph
1 I, 2| the body will either be points (i.e. without magnitude) 2 I, 2| appearance. But if it consists of points, a similar absurdity will 3 I, 2| magnitude. For when the points were in contact and coincided 4 I, 2| hence, even if all the points be put together, they will 5 I, 2| and if the magnitude is "points or contacts thus qualified": 6 I, 2| Moreover, where will the points be? And are they motionless 7 I, 2| to consist of contacts or points, there must be indivisible 8 I, 2| potentially, divisible at all points simultaneously. For if it 9 I, 2| come-to-be again either out of points or absolutely out of nothing. 10 I, 2| either of contacts or of points. But it is only in one sense 11 I, 2| anywhere within it and all its points are everywhere within it 12 I, 2| But there are not more points than one anywhere within 13 I, 2| anywhere within it, for the points are not "consecutive": hence 14 I, 5| the body comes-to-be, as points or lines. The matter is 15 I, 5| matter is that of which points and lines are limits, and 16 I, 8| it is divisible at some points, but not at others, looks


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