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  1   I, 1 |  Empedocles. Empedocles says that Fire, Water, Air, and Earth are
  2   I, 1 |           they affirm that Earth, Fire, Water, and Air are composite;
  3   I, 1 |            it is not possible for Fire to become Water, or Water
  4   I, 1 |        came-to-be Water, and that Fire, various portions of it
  5   I, 1 |        generated", for presumably Fire, Earth, and Water had no
  6   I, 1 |            Or is it the Many-i.e. Fire and Earth, and the bodies
  7   I, 1 |       that out of which Earth and Fire come-to-be through a change
  8   I, 3 |    Perhaps, e.g. the passage into Fire is "coming-to-be" unqualified,
  9   I, 3 |            passing-away" (e.g. of Fire). This would be the case
 10   I, 3 |           is and what is not, are Fire and Earth. Whether we postulate
 11   I, 3 |        the changes may be whether Fire and Earth, or some other
 12   I, 3 |     privation, and that Earth and Fire differ from one another
 13   I, 3 |      Substance, if it comes-to-be Fire but not if it comes-to-be
 14   I, 3 |         heavy) a "not-being", but Fire (i.e. the light) a "being"?
 15   I, 3 |          include Earth as well as Fire, whereas what is not" is
 16   I, 3 |    matter-the matter of Earth and Fire alike? And again, is the
 17   I, 5 |          or specifically, as e.g. fire is the efficient cause of
 18   I, 5 |      cause of the coming-to-be of fire or one man of the birth
 19   I, 5 |      ingredient into wine. And as fire lays hold of the inflammable,
 20   I, 5 |         it is possible to produce fire by piling logs on to the
 21   I, 5 |         on to the already burning fire. That is "growth". But when
 22   I, 5 |        logs themselves are set on fire, that is "coming-to-be".~"
 23   I, 7 |         For even when the smaller fire is destroyed by the greater,
 24   I, 7 |         We can now understand why fire heats and the cold thing
 25   I, 7 |           matter) is passive. Now fire contains "the hot" embodied
 26   I, 8 |         senses as to suppose that fire and ice are "one": it is
 27   I, 8 |           he does not assert that Fire too (and similarly every
 28   I, 9 |         To illustrate my meaning: Fire heats not only when in contact,
 29   I, 9 |          from a distance. For the fire heats the air, and the air-being
 30   I, 10|       wood as "combined" with the fire, nor of its burning as a "
 31   I, 10|     another or of itself with the fire: what we say is that "the
 32   I, 10|          what we say is that "the fire is coming-to-be, but the
 33  II, 1 |   supposing it to be, e.g. Air or Fire, or an "intermediate" between
 34  II, 1 |           for instance, postulate Fire and Earth: some add Air,
 35  II, 1 |       heat and cold), and thirdly Fire, Water, and the like. Only "
 36  II, 2 |         which people attribute to Fire as its function, is "associating"
 37  II, 3 |       apparently "simple" bodies (Fire, Air, Water, and Earth)
 38  II, 3 |        consonant with theory. For Fire is hot and dry, whereas
 39  II, 3 |    start-as Parmenides postulated Fire and Earth-make the intermediates (
 40  II, 3 |         opposes all the others to Fire.~In fact, however, fire
 41  II, 3 |           Fire.~In fact, however, fire and air, and each of the
 42  II, 3 |     simple" body corresponding to fire is "such-as-fire, not fire:
 43  II, 3 |        fire is "such-as-fire, not fire: that which corresponds
 44  II, 3 |        with the rest of them. But fire is an excess of heat, just
 45  II, 3 |       freezing of moist and cold, fire analogously will be a boiling
 46  II, 3 |       either out of ice or out of fire.~The "simple" bodies, since
 47  II, 3 |        regions, each to each: for Fire and Air are forms of the
 48  II, 3 |       moves towards the "centre". Fire and Earth, moreover, are
 49  II, 3 |           Water being contrary to Fire and Earth to Air; for the
 50  II, 3 |          to those that constitute Fire and Air. Nevertheless, since
 51  II, 3 |           rather than by hot, and Fire by hot rather than by dry.~
 52  II, 4 |    qualities are contrary-e.g. in Fire and Water, the first of
 53  II, 4 |        Air, e.g. will result from Fire if a single quality changes:
 54  II, 4 |       single quality changes: for Fire, as we saw, is hot and dry
 55  II, 4 |        will result from Water and Fire from Earth, since the two "
 56  II, 4 |           Earth: and again, since Fire is dry and hot while Earth
 57  II, 4 |      while Earth is cold and dry, Fire will result from Earth if
 58  II, 4 |         ii) the transformation of Fire into Water and of Air into
 59  II, 4 |           of Water and Earth into Fire and Air respectively, though
 60  II, 4 |         of more qualities. For if Fire is to result from Water,
 61  II, 4 |          Earth are to result from Fire and Air respectively-both
 62  II, 4 |           reciprocal. Still, from Fire plus Water there will result
 63  II, 4 |           and from Air plus Earth Fire and Water. For there will
 64  II, 4 |          Water and the dry of the Fire have passed-away (since
 65  II, 4 |      whereas, when the hot of the Fire and the moist of the Water
 66  II, 4 |        survival of the dry of the Fire and the cold of the Water.
 67  II, 4 |         So, too, in the same Way, Fire and Water will result from
 68  II, 4 |        passed-away, there will be Fire, owing to the survival of
 69  II, 4 |       essentially constitutive of Fire. Moreover, this mode of
 70  II, 4 |            Moreover, this mode of Fire's coming-to-be is confirmed
 71  II, 4 |           flame is par excellence Fire: but flame is burning smoke,
 72  II, 4 |       would result, if the dry of Fire and the moist of Air were
 73  II, 5 |       e.g. all be Air or Water or Fire or Earth-because "Change
 74  II, 5 |          other "element", e.g. to Fire. But Fire will certainly
 75  II, 5 |       element", e.g. to Fire. But Fire will certainly not be "hot
 76  II, 5 |        again to result out of the Fire, it will do so by the conversion
 77  II, 5 |        hence it is impossible for Fire to be "hot Air", since in
 78  II, 5 | simultaneously hot and cold. Both Fire and Air, therefore, will
 79  II, 5 |        Water), or between Air and Fire (coarser than Fire, but
 80  II, 5 |        Air and Fire (coarser than Fire, but finer than Air). For
 81  II, 5 |     intermediate" will be Air and Fire when a pair of contrasted
 82  II, 5 |         all of them would then be Fire or Earth, and this theory
 83  II, 5 |       that all things are made of Fire or Earth. Nor can a "middle-element"
 84  II, 5 |          is transformed both into Fire and into Water, and Water
 85  II, 5 |       Water, A for Air, and F for Fire. Then (i) since A is transformed
 86  II, 5 |      belong to F. Consequently F (Fire) as well as Air will be
 87  II, 5 |          to those of Water, since Fire was first taken to be black
 88  II, 5 |      following considerations. If Fire (which is represented by
 89  II, 5 |         mentioned, will belong to Fire and Q: for it has been assumed
 90  II, 5 |          only to Q but also to F (Fire). And, similarly, every
 91  II, 5 |        transformation of Air into Fire, if the contrarieties are
 92  II, 6 |         powers; i.e. that so-much Fire is comparable with many
 93  II, 6 |     increase by addition. For his Fire increases by Fire: "And
 94  II, 6 |         For his Fire increases by Fire: "And Earth increases its
 95  II, 6 |       consilience? Presumably not Fire or Earth. But neither is
 96  II, 6 |        manner contrary to nature (fire, e.g. appears to move upwards
 97  II, 6 |          says it is the nature of Fire to be borne upwards, but "
 98  II, 6 |           clearly, if the soul be Fire, only such modifications
 99  II, 6 |      happen to it as characterize Fire qua Fire: while if it be
100  II, 6 |          as characterize Fire qua Fire: while if it be compounded
101  II, 7 |       Water can come-to-be out of Fire and Fire out of Water; for
102  II, 7 |        come-to-be out of Fire and Fire out of Water; for their
103  II, 7 |     Consequently, it follows that Fire and Water do not come-to-be "
104  II, 7 |           coming-to-be when "both Fire and Water come-to-be out
105  II, 7 |           cold" and hot", or from Fire and Earth. For if flesh
106  II, 8 |          and they contain Air and Fire, because these are contrary
107  II, 8 |      contrary to Air and Water to Fire, in so far as one Substance
108  II, 8 |    come-to-be out of one another, Fire is the only one of them
109  II, 8 |        also assert) "is fed". For Fire alone-or more than all the
110  II, 9 |           it is evident that even Fire is itself moved, i.e. suffers
111  II, 9 |       however true it may be that Fire is active, i.e. sets things
112  II, 9 |         fail to observe-viz. that Fire is inferior to the tools
113  II, 10|    transformed into Air, Air into Fire, and the Fire back into
114  II, 10|            Air into Fire, and the Fire back into Water, we say