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1 II, 11| 11~Wherever there is continuity
2 I, 8 | sense-perception and would not abolish either coming-to-be and
3 I, 9 | being split. For this theory abolishes "alteration": but we see
4 I, 2 | while those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered
5 I, 2 | consists of points, a similar absurdity will result: it will not
6 II, 8 | found specially and most abundantly in its own place. And they
7 I, 5 | if, e.g. "moist" were to accede to "dry" and, having acceded,
8 I, 5 | accede to "dry" and, having acceded, were to be transformed
9 I, 5 | were. If, then, a matter accedes-a matter, which is potentially
10 I, 2 | change of the thing per accidents, there will be "alteration".~"
11 II, 2 | to the object of touch.~Accordingly, we must segregate the tangible
12 II, 1 | many of them, are to be accounted "originative sources" of
13 I, 3 | always being moved. And the accurate treatment of the first of
14 II, 9 | being; and we are everywhere accustomed, in the products of nature
15 I, 5 | it is no longer able to act-if it has been weakened by
16 I, 8 | that it suffers a certain action-for "soft" is that which yields
17 I, 9 | as both to act and suffer action-heats the body.) But the supposition
18 I, 2 | passion" how in physical actions one thing acts and the other
19 II, 9 | why is their generating activity intermittent instead of
20 II, 7 | part of this work." For the actually-hot is potentially-cold and
21 I, 8 | provided they are by nature adapted for reciprocal action and
22 I, 10| either, nor any other of the "adjectivals". (Indeed, this is a blemish
23 I, 2 | supposed to follow, from the admission, that the magnitude must
24 I, 9 | as a whole, either by the admixture of something or by its own
25 I, 8 | is practically bound to adopt the same theory as Leucippus.
26 II, 10| originative source. "God therefore adopted the remaining alternative,
27 I, 2 | Dissociation" and "association" affect the thing's susceptibility
28 I, 6 | motion is a "qualitative affection"-i.e. a quality, like white"
29 I, 1 | with other thinkers, he affirms that the elements are many.
30 | against
31 II, 9 | such materials and by their agency (so they maintain) that
32 I, 8 | philosophers think that the "last" agent-the "agent" in the strictest
33 II, 10| observation in manifest agreement with our theories. Thus
34 I, 1 | number; whereas Anaxagoras agrees with Leucippus and Democritus
35 I, 3 | things-Fire, Earth, Water, Air-are characterized by "the contraries".~
36 I, 9 | fire heats the air, and the air-being by nature such as both to
37 I, 3 | any other, preoccupied and alarmed the earliest philosophers.
38 I, 5 | continues so long as it is kept alive (even when it is diminishing),
39 I, 3 | the universal, i.e. the all-comprehensive, predication. Hence, if "
40 II, 10| to persist in any place allotted to it by the Order.~It is
41 II, 8 | assert) "is fed". For Fire alone-or more than all the rest-is
42 I, 5 | magnitude which is there already-that, indeed, is why the growing
43 II, 10| is that the body becomes alternately remote and near; and since
44 I, 2 | growth, except such as any amateur might have made. They said
45 II, 5 | or Earth, and this theory amounts to the assertion that all
46 II, 3 | of moist and cold, fire analogously will be a boiling of dry
47 II, 1 | Nevertheless he carries his analysis of the "elements"-solids
48 I, 5 | the latter has come-to-be, and-if anything has grown-there
49 I, 4 | spherical and at another time angular, and yet remains the same
50 I, 5 | specific forms of animal: what "animal-in-general" is in coming-to-be, that "
51 II, 11| to rain), while men and animals do not "return upon themselves"
52 I, 8 | sets which differ from one another-as if, e.g. some of them, in
53 II, 6 | not transformed into one another-one may well wonder in what
54 I, 10| ambiguous attitude towards one another-showing a slight tendency to combine
55 I, 5 | without the departure of anything-and that which grows need not
56 II, 3 | attached themselves to the apparently "simple" bodies (Fire, Air,
57 I, 2 | the appearance, and the appearances are conflicting and infinitely
58 I, 3 | For this distinction of appellation depends upon a difference
59 II, 10| causing "the generator" to approach and retire, will produce
60 II, 11| the heavens (a fact which approved itself on other and independent
61 I, 8 | action and passion.~Such, approximately, are the current explanations
62 II, 10| perpetually" is the closest approximation to eternal being.~The cause
63 I, 7 | neither of two "likes" is more apt than the other either to
64 II, 3 | moist (Air being a sort of aqueous vapour); and Water is cold
65 I, 8 | at others, looks like an arbitrary fiction. For up to what
66 I, 10| are-potentially while others are-actually, the constituents combined
67 II, 1 | elements"-solids though they are-back to "planes", and it is impossible
68 I, 10| Since, however, some things are-potentially while others are-actually,
69 I, 5 | within an ever-diminishing area.~It is clear, then, that
70 I, 6 | Diogenes is right when he argues that "unless all things
71 I, 8 | minuteness, but close-set and arranged in rows: and the more transparent
72 I, 6 | so-called "elements". We must ask whether they really are
73 I, 2 | that of the elements. He asked no questions as to how flesh
74 I, 2 | Or are they planes, as is asserted in the Timaeus?~To resolve
75 II, 9 | they invest the forces they assign to the "simple" bodies-the
76 I, 8 | the hot" - "the hot" being assigned as peculiar to the spherical
77 II, 6 | and its "good": whereas he assigns the whole credit to the "
78 I, 7 | general why the active thing assimilates to itself the patient. For
79 I, 2 | of water have first been "associated", air comes-to-be more slowly.
80 I, 8 | tolerable consistency from the assumptions they employ. But there is
81 I, 8 | the primary bodies of the Atomists-the primary constituents of
82 II, 5 | will carry with it the attachment of a new contrariety to
83 I, 2 | together: they do not even attempt to generate any quality
84 I, 10| hesitating and ambiguous attitude towards one another-showing
85 I, 3 | of coming-to-be cannot be attributed to the infinity of the material.
86 II, 6 | the contrary, sometimes he attributes its movement to something
87 II, 10| into Fire, and the Fire back into Water, we say the coming-to-be "
88 II, 10| what is to some people a baffling problem-viz. why the "simple"
89 II, 7 | unless they are equally balanced, are transformed into one
90 I, 10| having been "combined" with barley when each grain of the one
91 II, 1 | written in the Timaeus is not based on any precisely-articulated
92 II, 9 | field of "that which can be-and~not-be". This, therefore,
93 II, 9 | come-to-be is "that which can be-and-not-be": and~this is identical
94 I, 5 | like a metal that is being beaten, retaining its position
95 II, 9 | not the wood, that makes a bed. Nor is this their only
96 I, 10| the tin almost vanishes, behaving as if it were an immaterial
97 I, 10| form" respectively. The behaviour of these metals is a case
98 I, 3 | being-ill and ill out of being-healthy, comes-to-be-small out of
99 I, 3 | comes-to-be-healthy out of being-ill and ill out of being-healthy,
100 I, 3 | being big and big out of being-small, and so on in every other
101 II, 9 | bodies to bring things into being-with too instrumental a character.
102 I, 6 | reciprocal. The reason of this belief is that "movers" which belong
103 | beyond
104 I, 5 | of fire or one man of the birth of another), or (ii) an
105 I, 2 | and through, whether by bisection, or generally by any method
106 I, 2 | parts, the whole was not a bit smaller or bigger than it
107 II, 2 | blackness), nor sweetness (and bitterness), nor (similarly) any quality
108 II, 9 | Socrates in the Phaedo first blames everybody else for having
109 I, 10| adjectivals". (Indeed, this is a blemish in the theory of those who
110 II, 3 | he makes "the middle" a blend.) Indeed, there is practically
111 II, 3 | mentioned, are not simple, but blended. The "simple" bodies are
112 I, 10| composition" instead of a "blending" or "combination": nor will
113 I, 4 | whole is converted into blood, or water into air, or air
114 II, 8 | 8~All the compound bodies-all of which exist in the region
115 I, 10| most "combinable" of all bodies-because, of all divisible materials,
116 I, 5 | body, there will be two bodies-that which grows and that which
117 II, 9 | they assign to the "simple" bodies-the forces which enable these
118 II, 10| action" e.g. the "simple" bodiesimitate circular motion. For when
119 II, 8 | belonging to the central body-are composed of all the "simple"
120 II, 10| proximity, it-this very same body-destroys by retreating and becoming
121 I, 5 | come-to-be in growth is flesh or bone-or a hand or arm (i.e. the
122 I, 8 | that has been explained: breaking-up (i.e. passing-away) is effected
123 II, 7 | but only as a stone and a brick "both come-to-be out of
124 I, 1 | illustration~The sun everywhere bright to see, and hot,~The rain
125 II, 9 | plays a greater part in bringing, things into being; and
126 II, 2 | while "cold" is that which brings together, i.e. "associates",
127 I, 8 | large bodies) are easily broken up because they collide
128 I, 2 | divisible? But if what "came away" was not a body but
129 I, 4 | passed-away and an unmusical man came-tobe, and that the man persists
130 I, 2 | not only to have thought carefully about all the problems,
131 II, 9 | the various instruments of carpentry) as "the cause" of the things
132 II, 1 | gold"".) Nevertheless he carries his analysis of the "elements"-
133 II, 5 | of a new "element" will carry with it the attachment of
134 II, 6 | rather than Love is its cause-so that in general, too, Love
135 I, 3 | are to state the material cause-the cause classed under the
136 II, 10| for the eternal motion, by causing "the generator" to approach
137 I, 3 | form of change necessarily ceaseless? Is it because the passing-away
138 II, 8 | region belonging to the central body-are composed of all
139 II, 5 | e.g. to Fire. But Fire will certainly not be "hot Air". For a
140 I, 3 | two contrary poles of the chang-e.g. Earth (i.e. the heavy)
141 I, 5 | clear, then, that these changes-the changes of that which is
142 II, 6 | modifications will happen to it as characterize Fire qua Fire: while if
143 I, 3 | material cause-the cause classed under the head of matter-to
144 II, 11| there is to be a house: clay, if there are to be foundations),
145 I, 2 | Our doctrine will become clearer in the sequel." Meantime,
146 I, 3 | perhaps, if we succeed in clearing up this question, it will
147 I, 8 | to their minuteness, but close-set and arranged in rows: and
148 I, 5 | We must therefore come to closer quarters with the subject
149 II, 10| come-to-be perpetually" is the closest approximation to eternal
150 I, 1 | and Earth, and the bodies co-ordinate with these? For the One
151 I, 10| destroyed as the result of their coalescence, they cannot "have been
152 II, 2 | viscous-brittle, rough-smooth, coarse-fine. Of these (i) heavy and
153 II, 7 | this manner, the process is cobination"; whereas what comes-to-be
154 II, 10| for the greatest possible coherence would thus be secured to
155 II, 8 | b) Earth has no power of cohesion without the moist. On the
156 I, 2 | points were in contact and coincided to form a single magnitude,
157 I, 6 | meanings either owing to a mere coincidence of language, or owing to
158 I, 7 | whiseness-except perhaps "coincidentally", viz. if the line happened
159 II, 11| For what is "of necessity" coincides with what is "always", since
160 I, 4 | both are transparent or cold-the second thing, into which
161 I, 8 | easily broken up because they collide with many other bodies.
162 I, 2 | according to him, things get coloured by "turning" of the "figures".)
163 I, 3 | something in one of the two Columns-e.g. in Substance, if it comes-to-be
164 I, 10| is unification of the "combinables", resulting from their "
165 II, 6 | such statements, too, he combines the assertion that the Order
166 II, 11| as for the antecedent) to come-to-be-"necessary" absolutely. If that be the
167 II, 9 | identical with'that which can come-to-be-and-pass-away", since~the latter, while
168 I, 3 | learning thing is said to "come-to-be-learned" but not to "come-tobe"
169 II, 11| the consequent also must come-to-be-not, however, because of the
170 II, 11| quite possible for it not to come-to-be-thus a man might not walk, though
171 I, 2 | constituent. For Tragedy and Comedy are both composed of the
172 I, 3 | of something-I mean, e.g. comes-to-be-healthy out of being-ill and ill
173 I, 3 | we say that the student "comes-to-be-learned", not "comes-to-be" without
174 I, 3 | ill out of being-healthy, comes-to-be-small out of being big and big
175 I, 3 | qualification. And (ii) so-and-so "comes-to-be-something", but does not "come-to-be"
176 II, 11| things whose "substance" comes-to-be-whose "substance" is such that
177 I, 7 | since it is only thus that coming-to be will be a process into
178 I, 3 | passingaway (though it is a coming-to-be-of-something). For this distinction of
179 I, 8 | Such an assertion would commit him to doctrines like those
180 I, 8 | digression: i. The Atomists are committed to the view that every "
181 II, 6 | in their amount, all the "comparables" must possess an identical
182 II, 3 | advocate three. (We may compare what Plato does in Me Divisions":
183 II, 6 | their amount, they might be compared as terms in a "correspondence":
184 II, 6 | possibility. Instead of comparing their powers by the measure
185 II, 1 | fashioned of gold. (And yet this comparison, if thus expressed, is itself
186 I, 8 | criticisms fall within the compass of a short digression: i.
187 I, 6 | single element are equally compelled to introduce "acting". And
188 I, 2 | passing-away in the unqualified and complete sense are distinctively
189 II, 10| say the coming-to-be "has completed the circle", because it
190 II, 7 | neither exists in the full completeness of its being, but both by
191 II, 1 | elements" of bodies.~For the complex substances whose formation
192 I, 1 | which everything else is composed-the compounds differing one
193 II, 7 | They must conceive it as composition-just as a wall comes-to-be out
194 I, 2 | Hence-owing to the changes of the compound-the same thing seems different
195 I, 8 | perception: on the other hand, he conceded to the Monists that there
196 II, 7 | their coming-to-be to be conceived by those who maintain a
197 I, 7 | because their attention was concentrated on the "contraries". We
198 II, 1 | any precisely-articulated conception. For he has not stated clearly
199 I, 8 | of things. He made these concessions to the facts of perception:
200 I, 3 | definitions, the following concise restatement of our results
201 II, 11| have reached is logically concordant with the eternity of circular
202 II, 3 | generate everything else by condensation and rarefaction, are in
203 II, 11| be absolutely, but only conditionally, necessary. For it will
204 I, 2 | come-to-be and pass-away, he confined his inquiry to these changes;
205 II, 4 | of Fire's coming-to-be is confirmed by perception. For flame
206 I, 2 | postulate the latter, we are confronted with equally impossible
207 I, 8 | difficulty we have just raised confronts, as a necessary consequence,
208 I, 9 | within it those "hard" (i.e. congealed) particles "indivisible
209 I, 9 | liquid-and again, solid and congealed-uniformly all through. This theory,
210 I, 10| the problem immediately connected with them-whether combination
211 II, 11| change whatever) we observe consecutiveness", i.e. this coming-to-be
212 I, 2 | cannot proceed. The necessary consequence-especially if coming-to-be and passing-away
213 II, 7 | The "mean", however, is of considerable extent and not indivisible.
214 I, 2 | is, besides, this further consideration. If, having divided a piece
215 I, 3 | from the one we have been considering where two things come-to-be
216 I, 8 | door to madness when one considers the facts. For indeed no
217 I, 8 | The most systematic and consistent theory, however, and one
218 I, 1 | impossible for them to do so consistently with what they say.~That
219 II, 3 | to Air; for the qualities constituting Water and Earth are contrary
220 I, 2 | the possibility of such a construction no longer exists for those
221 I, 5 | well as the body that has consumed it (that is so, e.g. if,
222 I, 5 | identical and one with the "containing" body, though isolable from
223 I, 8 | necessary, therefore, for his "contiguous discretes" to be indivisible,
224 II, 11| that come-to-be of this contingent character? Or, on the contrary,
225 I, 5 | of matter, just as water, continually mixed in greater and greater
226 I, 5 | has been weakened by the continued influx of matter, just as
227 II, 9 | instead of perpetual and continuous-since there always are Participants
228 I, 5 | of the diminishing thing contract within an ever-diminishing
229 I, 1 | Empedocles, indeed, seems to contradict his own statements as well
230 II, 4 | pass-away out both, the contraries-dry and moist-are left. A similar
231 II, 5 | through such a vast number of contrarieties-and indeed even more than any
232 II, 2 | is in accordance with a contrariety-a contrariety, moreover, of
233 I, 10| combinable" which involve a contrariety-for these are such as to suffer
234 I, 6 | agent" is to be used in contrast to "patient" and (b) "patient"
235 II, 10| continuity of "that in which" contributes to make the movement continuous,
236 I, 5 | and the wine were able to convert the new ingredient into
237 I, 2 | would appear to have been convinced by arguments appropriate
238 II, 6 | e.g. having a power of cooling equal to that of ten pints
239 I, 7 | heats and the cold thing cools, and in general why the
240 II, 2 | which is penetrated to its core), while "dry" is that which
241 I, 5 | tendency to suppose that a corpse still possesses flesh and
242 I, 8 | vision through a medium" be correct? It is impossible for (the
243 II, 2 | are primary. Contrarieties correlative to touch are the following:
244 [Title]| On the Generation and Corruption~
245 I, 3 | and Earth, or some other couple-the one of them will be "a being"
246 II, 6 | whereas he assigns the whole credit to the "mingling". (And
247 I, 8 | so too is growth-solids creeping in to fill the void places."
248 I, 8 | consequences, the following criticisms fall within the compass
249 I, 8 | correspond a void of equal cubic capacity.~As a general criticism
250 I, 2 | whatever the point at which I cut the wood. The wood, therefore,
251 II, 11| consequence come-to-be in a cycle, i.e. return upon themselves;
252 II, 11| absolutely necessary, must be cyclical-i.e. must return upon itself.
253 II, 11| and since they come-to-be cyclically, so in their turn do the
254 I, 1 | hot,~The rain everywhere dark and cold;~ ~and he distinctively
255 I, 2 | fundamental question, in dealing with all these difficulties,
256 II, 10| as the sun approaches and decay as it retreats; and we see
257 II, 2 | contains moisture of its-own deep within it ("sodden" being
258 II, 2 | sodden" being that which is deeply penetrated by foreign mosture),
259 II, 9 | by all our predecessors, definitely stated by none of them.
260 I, 10| susceptible in a very slight degree-the compound resulting from
261 II, 6 | Deity, and they too are Deities.)~Again, his account of
262 II, 6 | are by nature prior to the Deity, and they too are Deities.)~
263 II, 6 | characteristic movements, or to have demonstrated them-whether strictly or
264 II, 3 | two, viz. the rare and the dense, or rather the hot and the
265 II, 11| movements which belong to, and depend upon, this eternal revolution "
266 I, 6 | owing to a real order of derivation in the different things
267 II, 2 | are the cold and the dry derivative forms, either of one another
268 I, 8 | become either "rarer" or "derser" inasmuch as there is no
269 II, 1 | passingaway, are rightly described as "originative sources,
270 II, 7 | being, but both by combining destroy one another's excesses so
271 II, 10| successive approaches, it also destroys by many successive retirements.
272 I, 5 | from its beginning, and determine the precise character of
273 II, 11| character of the process is determined by the character of that
274 II, 6 | Then what is the cause determining that man comes-to-be from
275 I, 5 | in the food.~We have now developed the difficulties sufficiently
276 I, 5 | actually incorporeal and devoid of magnitude? And since
277 I, 2 | development: while those whom devotion to abstract discussions
278 I, 1 | school of Anaxagoras seem diametrically opposed to those of the
279 I, 8 | result. Moreover, if they differed in substance, they would
280 II, 2 | qualities-that the primary bodies are differentiated. That is why neither whiteness (
281 II, 5 | certain contrariety, i.e. a differentiating quality: and the other member
282 I, 6 | place", while the primary differentiation of "place" is the above"
283 I, 8 | within the compass of a short digression: i. The Atomists are committed
284 I, 2 | endeavour to unravel this dilemma too-and a stubborn one we
285 I, 2 | perplexing and well-grounded dilemmas. If, on the one hand, coming-to-be
286 I, 6 | acting". And in this respect Diogenes is right when he argues
287 II, 5 | straight line in either direction, since otherwise an infinite
288 II, 1 | passing-away: but philosophers disagree in regard to the matter
289 I, 3 | things "which are" constantly disappearing, why has not the whole of "
290 I, 10| having been combined, it disappears, leaving no trace except
291 I, 3 | difference. For we are trying to discover not what undergoes these
292 I, 8 | therefore, for his "contiguous discretes" to be indivisible, while
293 I, 10| that perception fails to discriminate them one from another, have
294 I, 2 | works." But we must try to disentangle these perplexities, and
295 I, 1 | whereas they result from disintegration the Many are more "elementary"
296 I, 6 | different sense. But the disjunctive definition of "touching"
297 II, 7 | in accordance with the disjunctively-articulated definition established in
298 I, 10| these difficulties may be dismissed: but the problem immediately
299 II, 2 | does not yield by total displacement as the moist does-which
300 I, 10| bronze. For some things display a hesitating and ambiguous
301 I, 8 | sense-perception, and to disregard it on the ground that "one
302 I, 7 | small. But (ii) Democritus dissented from all the other thinkers
303 II, 9 | the nature of the hot to dissociate, of the cold to bring together,
304 I, 8 | comings-to-be" and the "dissociations" result from the "indivisibles" (
305 I, 1 | the consilience and the dissolution of the many kinds. That
306 I, 8 | elements into which they are dissolved-are indivisible, differing from
307 I, 3 | difficulties and established the distinguishing definitions, the following
308 II, 3 | differences are reasonably distributed among the primary bodies,
309 II, 9 | things, since~they cannot diverge from the necessity of their
310 I, 2 | if it has actually been divided-not even if it has been divided
311 I, 9 | it will be in a state of dividedness-since, as it can be divided, nothing
312 I, 2 | through, even though the dividings had not been effected simultaneously:
313 I, 9 | erroneous view concerning the divisibility of magnitudes. For us) the
314 I, 2 | which are smaller at each division-into magnitudes which fall apart
315 II, 3 | compare what Plato does in Me Divisions": for he makes "the middle"
316 I, 8 | assertion would commit him to doctrines like those which Plato has
317 II, 2 | displacement as the moist does-which explains why the moist is
318 I, 2 | the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.
319 I, 8 | believe them seems next door to madness when one considers
320 I, 6 | a difference and we must draw a distinction. For not every "
321 II, 3 | e.g. Empedocles: yet he too draws them together so as to reduce
322 II, 9 | as well-the cause vaguely dreamed of by all our predecessors,
323 I, 7 | of, "contraries", neither drives the other out of its natural
324 II, 10| owing to the motion with its dual character: and because they
325 I, 5 | determinate quantity the ducts to which it accedes will
326 II, 10| occupy equal times. For the durations of the natural processes
327 I, 2 | admitted facts. Hence those who dwell in intimate association
328 I, 5 | active principle of growth, dwelling in the growing thing that
329 I, 2 | Since, therefore, the be dy is divisible through and
330 I, 8 | properties should attach to each-e.g. that this "indivisible"
331 I, 3 | preoccupied and alarmed the earliest philosophers. On the other
332 II, 5 | Air or Water or Fire or Earth-because "Change is into contraries".
333 II, 3 | Parmenides postulated Fire and Earth-make the intermediates (e.g.
334 II, 4 | the Air and the dry of the Earth-qualities essentially constitutive
335 I, 8 | bulk, were "fiery", others earthy"? For (i) if all of them
336 II, 4 | of transformation is the easiest, because the consecutive "
337 II, 5 | transformation will never be effected-viz. if the intermediates are
338 I, 3 | of the other Categories either-e.g. we cannot attribute to
339 I, 1 | are four, while all the elements-including those which initiate movement-are
340 II, 8 | pieces if the moist were eliminated from it completely.~They
341 II, 2 | tangible, but qua something else-qua something which may well
342 I, 10| was the difficulty that emerged in the previous argument:
343 I, 8 | the characterizing figures employed by Plato are limited in
344 II, 9 | bodies-the forces which enable these bodies to bring things
345 II, 8 | with the matter. This fact enables us to understand why, whereas
346 II, 5 | and into Earth, while the "end-elements" are not further transformed
347 II, 5 | originative element" at the ends: for all of them would then
348 I, 7 | these that constitute the entire sphere of passing-away and
349 I, 1 | yet (having brought the entirety of existing things, except
350 I, 7 | matter: but if there are any entities thus separable, what we
351 II, 5 | the "Boundless" or the "Environing" exists-in isolation. It
352 II, 6 | correspondence", though it means equality in the quantum, means similarity
353 I, 10| when there is a certain equilibrium between their "powers of
354 II, 2 | and since "perceptible" is equivalent to "tangible", and "tangible"
355 I, 9 | possible for those who hold an erroneous view concerning the divisibility
356 I, 2 | there be in the body which escapes the division?~If it is divisible
357 I, 1 | be "separated" from them, especially since Strife and Love are
358 I, 2 | so much may be taken as established-viz. that coming-to-be cannot
359 II, 6 | For, according to his own estatements, nothing comes-to-be from
360 I, 2 | away" from the magnitude, evading the division. Even then
361 I, 5 | thing contract within an ever-diminishing area.~It is clear, then,
362 I, 5 | rowing thing expand over an ever-increasing place and the parts of the
363 II, 9 | the Phaedo first blames everybody else for having given no
364 I, 2 | something not divided, whereas ex hypothesis the body was
365 II, 10| explained elsewhere the exact variety of meanings we recognize
366 I, 2 | a faulty inference, and exactly where it conceals it.~For,
367 I, 2 | come-to-be; nor again did he examine the conditions under which "
368 I, 2 | consequences, which we have examined in other works." But we
369 II, 7 | contraries we have used as examples, produce flesh and bone
370 II, 6 | highly regular: while any exceptions any results which are in
371 I, 8 | that we see and hear and exercise all our other senses. Moreover,
372 II, 5 | intermediate" never can exist-as some thinkers assert the "
373 II, 5 | Boundless" or the "Environing" exists-in isolation. It is, therefore,
374 I, 8 | approximately, are the current explanations of the manner in which some
375 II, 1 | this comparison, if thus expressed, is itself open to criticism.
376 II, 9 | and that is the~formula expressing the essential nature of
377 II, 7 | however, is of considerable extent and not indivisible. Similarly,
378 I, 2 | of sawdust, as it were-is extracted, and that in this sense-a
379 I, 3 | established: but even then it is extraordinarily difficult to see how there
380 I, 10| to another,) while to the eye of Lynceus nothing will
381 I, 8 | property through the movement facilitated by the pores, if this is
382 II, 9 | theory of any universal facilitates the understanding of its
383 II, 4 | both the speed and the facility of their conversion will
384 I, 1 | And yet Anaxagoras himself failed to understand his own utterance.
385 II, 2 | has actually been due to failure of moisture. Further (c) "
386 II, 8 | with the Water. That is why farmers too endeavour to mix before
387 II, 1 | underlies the things that are fashioned of gold. (And yet this comparison,
388 I, 10| combining" with the wax and thus fashioning the lump. Nor can body "
389 I, 7 | identical, because they fastened their attention on the substratum:
390 II, 11| coming-to-be presupposes your father's, his coming-to-be does
391 I, 2 | show that it conceals a faulty inference, and exactly where
392 | few
393 I, 8 | looks like an arbitrary fiction. For up to what limit is
394 I, 8 | their aggregated bulk, were "fiery", others earthy"? For (i)
395 I, 1 | Strife and Love are still fighting with one another for the
396 I, 8 | fact that the pores are filled, their postulate of pores
397 I, 3 | several comings-to-be was finite? For, presumably, the unfailing
398 I, 7 | is nothing to prevent the firs; mover being unmoved (indeed,
399 II, 1 | three "originative sources": firstly that which potentially perceptible
400 II, 3 | these. The same course is followed (iii) by those who advocate
401 I, 5 | But the same reasons also forbid us to regard the matter,
402 I, 10| is clear, then, from the foregoing account, that "combination"
403 II, 6 | unmusical, or how is memory or forgetting, to occur? For clearly,
404 II, 9 | more, since they remove the formal cause, they invest the forces
405 II, 1 | complex substances whose formation and maintenance are due
406 II, 4 | no "simple" body can be formed either out of identical,
407 II, 9 | or "form"-and that is the~formula expressing the essential
408 I, 3 | the question subsequently formulated involves a different problem-viz.
409 II, 6 | comes-to-be from their "fortuitous consilience", but only from
410 II, 6 | things can be "mingled" fortuitously.~The cause, therefore, of
411 I, 8 | should be more liable to fracture than the small ones, since
412 II, 6 | Earth increases its own frame and Ether increases Ether."
413 I, 10| further, they combine more freely if small pieces of each
414 I, 8 | transparent the body, the more frequent and serial they suppose
415 II, 10| remaining alternative, and fulfilled the perfection of the universe
416 II, 7 | therefore, when either is fully real without qualification,
417 II, 2 | attribute to Fire as its function, is "associating" things
418 II, 8 | Additional evidence seems to be furnished by the food each compound
419 I, 2 | bodies into planes and no further-this, as we have also remarked
420 I, 8 | that it is either false or futile to advocate pores in the
421 I, 10| combine" with ten thousand gallons of water: for its form is
422 I, 1 | processes considered in general-as changes predicable uniformly
423 I, 10| combine" with white, nor (to generalize) "properties" and "states"
424 II, 10| motion, by causing "the generator" to approach and retire,
425 I, 7 | a) patient and agent are generically identical (i.e. "like")
426 I, 5 | same as the effect either generically-or the efficient cause of the
427 I, 8 | multiplicity, nor from the genuinely-many a "one": that is impossible.
428 I, 8 | becoming intertwined. From the genuinely-one, on the other hand, there
429 I, 2 | according to him, things get coloured by "turning" of
430 I, 5 | every particle of the flesh gets bigger), (ii) by the accession
431 I, 7 | in what manner. We must go on to discuss how it is
432 II, 10| the "originative source. "God therefore adopted the remaining
433 II, 6 | movement that Love sets going? No: for, on the contrary,
434 II, 6 | of each thing and its "good": whereas he assigns the
435 II, 10| neighbour, they would have got dissevered long ago. They
436 I, 5 | of our inquiry. We must grapple" with it (as it were) from
437 I, 5 | is it the shin which is greater-but not that "whereby" he grows,
438 I, 6 | sometimes that the man who grieves us "touches" us, but not
439 I, 8 | and to disregard it on the ground that "one ought to follow
440 II, 5 | be the first. On similar grounds, therefore, D (dryness)
441 I, 1 | shapes, "positions", and "groupings" of their constituents.)~
442 I, 5 | the tissue qua form should grow-and grow by the accession of
443 I, 5 | altering", and of that which is growing-differ in manner as well as in
444 I, 5 | potentially that which is growing-potentially flesh, e.g. if it is flesh
445 I, 5 | come-to-be, and-if anything has grown-there has been a growth of "body."
446 I, 8 | the void, and so too is growth-solids creeping in to fill the
447 I, 5 | three characteristics of growth-that the growing thing persists,
448 I, 8 | and what seems right from habit, that some people are mad
449 II, 2 | dry-moist, heavy-light, hard-soft, viscous-brittle, rough-smooth,
450 I, 8 | heaviness and lightness, and hardness and softness. And yet Democritus
451 I, 8 | thought he had a theory which harmonized with sense-perception and
452 I, 10| not-be". The compound may he-actually other than the constituents
453 I, 7 | agent is there, the patient he-comes something: but when "states"
454 I, 10| nevertheless each of them may still he-potentially what it was before they
455 I, 3 | cause classed under the head of matter-to which it is
456 I, 4 | as the same body, is now healthy and now ill; and the bronze
457 I, 8 | assert, that we see and hear and exercise all our other
458 I, 7 | acting, it is simultaneously heated or cooled or otherwise affected.
459 I, 7 | be made hot, provided the heating agent is there, i.e. comes
460 II, 11| of the revolution of the heavens (a fact which approved itself
461 I, 8 | indivisible exceeds, the heavier it is"-to which we must
462 I, 8 | they should not possess heaviness and lightness, and hardness
463 II, 2 | following: hot-cold, dry-moist, heavy-light, hard-soft, viscous-brittle,
464 I, 2 | figures" infinite in number. Hence-owing to the changes of the compound-the
465 I, 10| For some things display a hesitating and ambiguous attitude towards
466 II, 2 | associates", homogeneous and heterogeneous things alike. And moise
467 II, 6 | uniformity either absolute or highly regular: while any exceptions
468 II, 2 | together, i.e. "associates", homogeneous and heterogeneous things
469 I, 8 | must clearly add "and the hotter it is". But if that is their
470 I, 2 | not divided, whereas ex hypothesis the body was divisible through
471 I, 7 | belong to the one belong identically and in the same degree to
472 I, 3 | not when it comes-to-be ignorant.~We have explained why some
473 I, 1 | Empedocles may be quoted in illustration~The sun everywhere bright
474 I, 5 | of the tissue after the image of flowing water that is
475 I, 8 | the "big" may be), or to imagine "the void" means anything
476 II, 10| beginning. Hence it is by imitating circular motion that rectilinear
477 I, 10| behaving as if it were an immaterial property of the bronze:
478 II, 1 | one another (they are not immutable as Empedocles and other
479 I, 10| except the colour it has imparted to the bronze. The same
480 II, 10| come-to-be and pass-away are implicated with one another. For their
481 I, 3 | something else?~The cause implied in this solution must no
482 I, 2 | result would involve no impossibility. Hence the same principle
483 I, 8 | matter" will be identical in-potentiality as well as numerically-identical.~
484 I, 9 | can be divided, nothing inconceivable results. And (iii) the suposition
485 I, 3 | dividing of it can continue indefinitely: so that we should have
486 II, 11| approved itself on other and independent evidence)," since precisely
487 I, 7 | there would be nothing indestructible or immovable, for everything
488 I, 5 | either intrinsically or indirectly. And the second alternative
489 II, 11| themselves" so that the same individual comes-to-be a second time (
490 I, 8 | other bodies. But why should indivisibility as such be the property
491 I, 8 | solids which, however, are indivisible-unless there are continuous pores
492 I, 8 | which some philosophers (induding Empedocles) advanced in
493 I, 1 | came-to-be), it will clearly be inevitable for Earth to come to-be
494 I, 7 | another —it is reasonable to infer that neither is in any way
495 I, 2 | that it conceals a faulty inference, and exactly where it conceals
496 II, 9 | observe-viz. that Fire is inferior to the tools or instruments
497 II, 5 | process cannot continue ad infinitum-will be clear from the following
498 I, 3 | cannot be attributed to the infinity of the material. That is
499 I, 5 | as fire lays hold of the inflammable, so the active principle
500 I, 5 | weakened by the continued influx of matter, just as water,