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501 I, 4 | been a property essentially inhering in man, these changes would
502 II, 10| are more than one, their initiating causes must all of them,
503 II, 2 | that which has lost this inner moisture. Hence these too
504 II, 11| problem, we must begin by inquiring whether all things "return
505 I, 8 | And in this respect, they insist, the view that the universe
506 I, 1 | comes-to-be out of any other, insisting on the contrary that they
507 II, 9 | things into being-with too instrumental a character. For "since" (
508 I, 5 | Our solution must preserve intact the three characteristics
509 I, 7 | contrary. And, again, it is intelligible that the advocates of both
510 II, 10| time. This is due to the "intermingling" by which the things that
511 II, 9 | their generating activity intermittent instead of perpetual and
512 I, 8 | put together and becoming intertwined. From the genuinely-one,
513 II, 11| coming-to-be after that without any interval. Hence we must investigate
514 I, 8 | be indivisible, while the intervals between them-which he calls "
515 I, 2 | Hence those who dwell in intimate association with nature
516 I, 5 | must be "somewhere"-either intrinsically or indirectly. And the second
517 I, 6 | are equally compelled to introduce "acting". And in this respect
518 II, 6 | accordance neither with the invariable nor with the general rule
519 II, 6 | comes-to-be from wheat, either invariably or generally? Are we to
520 II, 9 | remove the formal cause, they invest the forces they assign to
521 II, 7 | appropriate to a different investigation:" let us return to the "
522 II, 10| of their motion or by its irregularity: for contrary effects demand
523 I, 5 | what is-potentially to what is-actually magnitude and quality respectively?
524 I, 7 | longer becomes but already is-and "forms" (i.e. lends") are
525 I, 6 | therefore, that "to touch" is-as we have defined it in a
526 I, 5 | being changes from what is-potentially to what is-actually magnitude
527 II, 6 | not qua "amount" but qua Iso-much power". There is also (iii)
528 I, 5 | containing" body, though isolable from it by definition. But
529 II, 5 | the "Environing" exists-in isolation. It is, therefore, equally
530 I, 6 | possible-as we sometimes express it-for A "merely to touch" B, and
531 I, 5 | and that which increases it-in the same place: and this
532 II, 10| approaching and by its proximity, it-this very same body-destroys
533 II, 2 | which contains moisture of its-own deep within it ("sodden"
534 I, 1 | their qualities. And, to judge by what he says, the qualities
535 I, 9 | such, and one would be more justified in speaking of "pores" in
536 I, 8 | since there is nothing to keep things apart. And in this
537 I, 5 | continues so long as it is kept alive (even when it is diminishing),
538 I, 7 | by a member of the same kind-the reason being that "contraries"
539 I, 3 | not-perceiving, just as what is knowable "is" and what is unknowable "
540 I, 2 | generate any quality from them.~Lack of experience diminishes
541 II, 10| another in the infinite lapse of time. The reason is their
542 II, 6 | them-whether strictly or laxly or in some other fashion.
543 I, 2 | thought that the "truth lay in the appearance, and the
544 I, 2 | on these theses. For they lead to many perplexing and well-grounded
545 I, 3 | Quality, if it comes-to-be learned but not when it comes-to-be
546 I, 3 | problem-viz. why, although the learning thing is said to "come-to-be-learned"
547 I, 8 | way, therefore, they were led to transcend sense-perception,
548 I, 7 | already is-and "forms" (i.e. lends") are a kind of "state".
549 I, 3 | these problems at greater length in another work,where we
550 I, 5 | increase, and diminution is a lessening, of the magnitude which
551 I, 2 | both composed of the same letters.~Since almost all our predecessors
552 I, 8 | larger bodies should be more liable to fracture than the small
553 II, 7 | in question, are not at liberty to conceive that "both come-to-be
554 I, 2 | is where the whole error lies. For unqualified coming-to-be
555 II, 10| and every time (i.e. every life) is measured by a period.
556 II, 7 | flesh and bones and the like-the hot becoming cold and the
557 I, 7 | they argue) neither of two "likes" is more apt than the other
558 II, 2 | solidified" from the dry the "liquefiable" from the moist.~It is clear,
559 I, 9 | on the contrary, it is liquid-and again, solid and congealed-uniformly
560 I, 3 | they deem themselves to live and to "be" in virtue of
561 II, 10| too, the times-i.e. the lives-of the several kinds of living
562 II, 10| lives-of the several kinds of living things have a number by
563 II, 9 | nature and of art alike, to look upon that which can initiate
564 II, 2 | 2~Since, then, we are looking for "originative sources"
565 II, 6 | are products of chance and luck. Then what is the cause
566 I, 8 | the facts. For indeed no lunatic seems to be so far out of
567 I, 10| another,) while to the eye of Lynceus nothing will be "combined".)
568 II, 5 | moistness, D being dryness and M moistness. Now if, when
569 I, 8 | habit, that some people are mad enough to see no difference.~
570 I, 8 | them seems next door to madness when one considers the facts.
571 I, 1 | Strife, together into one) he maintains, simultaneously with this
572 II, 1 | substances whose formation and maintenance are due to natural processes
573 I, 1 | original real"? Or is it the Many-i.e. Fire and Earth, and the
574 I, 8 | severally in their aggregated masses, come-to-be and pass-away.
575 I, 1 | with one another for the mastery. It was owing to this same
576 II, 1 | contrary, postulate two or more materials-ascribing to their "association" and "
577 I, 6 | attribute "contact" to the mathematical things, we must also attribute "
578 I, 10| those Which have the same matter-"reciprocate", i.e. are such as to act
579 I, 5 | kind of power immersed in matter-a duct, as it were. If, then,
580 II, 1 | have mentioned, a single matter-and that corporeal and separable
581 I, 1 | underlies the process as matter-as that out of which Earth
582 I, 5 | has its form immersed in matter-has a twofold nature: for the
583 I, 3 | whereas what is not" is matter-the matter of Earth and Fire
584 I, 3 | classed under the head of matter-to which it is due that passing-away
585 II, 6 | only equal..."~If it is meant that they are comparable
586 | Meantime
587 II, 11| which we are speaking, is mediated by two, or by many, members.~
588 I, 8 | account of "vision through a medium" be correct? It is impossible
589 II, 6 | as it ran, it happened to meet them then, though often
590 II, 6 | being unmusical, or how is memory or forgetting, to occur?
591 II, 11| if it is to rain), while men and animals do not "return
592 I, 6 | meanings either owing to a mere coincidence of language,
593 I, 10| and it is changed so as to merge in the total volume of water.)
594 I, 1 | distinctive existence at all while merged in one.~There is another
595 I, 5 | changes its place like a metal that is being beaten, retaining
596 I, 7 | is not "active", except metaphorically.) For when the agent is
597 II, 5 | Fire or Earth. Nor can a "middle-element" be such an originative
598 II, 5 | be at the end or in the middle-to be an "originative source"
599 II, 9 | error. They make a second mistake in omitting the more controlling
600 II, 4 | of Fire. Moreover, this mode of Fire's coming-to-be is
601 I, 8 | the thinkers who explain modification of property through the
602 II, 2 | heterogeneous things alike. And moise is that which, being readily
603 II, 4 | the contraries-dry and moist-are left. A similar result will
604 I, 2 | be, at one and the same moment, divided through and through,
605 II, 2 | deeply penetrated by foreign mosture), whereas "solidigied" is
606 I, 2 | points be? And are they motionless or moving? And every contact
607 II, 3 | it is these which are the moulding forces, while the "one"
608 I, 8 | own, "what is" cannot be moved-nor again can it be "many",
609 II, 10| number" of some continuous movement-a "number", therefore, of
610 I, 1 | elements-including those which initiate movement-are six in number; whereas Anaxagoras
611 I, 5 | accedes is potentially "so much-flesh" it tends to increase flesh:
612 I, 3 | qualification, "something" must-without qualification-"come-to-be out of not-being",
613 I, 1 | whether to these different names there correspond two separate
614 I, 1 | processes with distinct natures.~On this question, indeed,
615 I, 2 | combination": and they neglected almost every single one
616 II, 10| being transformed by its neighbour, they would have got dissevered
617 I, 5 | will be a "void", i.e. a non-perceptible body. But the first of these
618 I, 3 | e.g. out of not-white or not-beautiful), but unqualified coming-to-be
619 I, 3 | by their perceiving and not-perceiving, just as what is knowable "
620 I, 3 | coming-to-be of a substance out of not-substance. But that which is not a
621 I, 3 | qualified not-being (e.g. out of not-white or not-beautiful), but unqualified
622 I, 5 | cause of growth. We must note (i) that the organic parts
623 II, 5 | nothing.~Since, then, there is nothing-at least, nothing perceptible-prior
624 I, 6 | yet itself be touched by nothing-for we say sometimes that the
625 I, 8 | this is supposed to occur notwithstanding the fact that the pores
626 I, 5 | potentially flesh only, it nourishes: for it is thus that "nutrition"
627 I, 5 | potentially "flesh" only, it is nourishment.~The form of which we have
628 I, 1 | transformation-not only then, but also now-if, and because, they change
629 I, 8 | in-potentiality as well as numerically-identical.~As to the thinkers who
630 II, 1 | it is impossible for "the Nurse" (i.e. the primary matter)
631 II, 6 | correspondingly increased.~A further objection to the theory of Empedocles
632 I, 9 | is open to this general objection-it is a paradox that "passion"
633 II, 4 | to the qualities of the objects of touch. Consequently,
634 I, 1 | in one.~There is another obscurity in the theory Empedocles.
635 I, 2 | dogmatize on the basis of a few observations. The rival treatments of
636 II, 11| kind of change whatever) we observe consecutiveness", i.e. this
637 II, 9 | further point they fail to observe-viz. that Fire is inferior to
638 II, 6 | is more, they do in fact obviously move. For though Strife "
639 I, 3 | comes-to-be is on each successive occasion smaller than before. But
640 I, 6 | and passion could not have occurred". The hot thing, e.g. would
641 I, 3 | this is not what we see occurring.~Why, then, is this form
642 | off
643 I, 2 | the remaining problems, offering no explanation, e.g. of "
644 II, 2 | for "the viscous" (e.g. oil) is a "moist" modified in
645 I, 8 | comes first.~For some of the older philosophers thought that "
646 II, 6 | that wheat (instead of an olive) comes-to-be from wheat,
647 II, 9 | make a second mistake in omitting the more controlling cause:
648 II, 1 | stated clearly whether his "Omnirecipient" exists in separation from
649 I, 8 | the void) and of producing one-no "indivisible" can be, e.g.
650 II, 4 | come to-be out of every one-or whether some can do so,
651 II, 5 | they cannot all of them be one-they cannot, e.g. all be Air
652 I, 5 | but a coming to-be of the one-viz. of that into which the
653 I, 8 | Moreover, although these opinions appear to follow logically
654 II, 3 | them to the two, for he opposes all the others to Fire.~
655 I, 7 | other group maintained the opposite because their attention
656 I, 6 | and the similar pairs of opposites), all things which touch
657 I, 9 | also. For if there is to be opposition (instead of the growing
658 I, 5 | of the tissues (for every organ is composed of these as
659 II, 5 | them out of which they all originate. But neither is there, beside
660 II, 5 | other body from which they originate-a something intermediate,
661 I, 4 | and a passing-away of the other-especially if the change proceeds from
662 I, 2 | be distinguished from the outset by his method. For, as we
663 II, 6 | coming-to-be of the things which owe their existence to nature
664 I, 8 | two cases are precisely parallel)? On the other hand (ii)
665 I, 5 | flesh, bone, and every such part-like every other thing which
666 I, 3 | unqualified, as well as partial, coming-to-be? Cause" in
667 II, 6 | contrary, these are causes of a particular motion, if at least we assume
668 I, 5 | manifest in the organic parts-e.g. in the hand. For there
669 I, 8 | further, even if these passages, though they must contain
670 I, 4 | was in the thing which has passedaway-if, e.g. when water comes-to-be
671 I, 8 | neither will it produce any by passing through its pores. On the
672 II, 10| transformed in virtue of their "passions" and their "powers of action"
673 II, 11| events) or "upwards" (as past events). Yet coming-to-be
674 I, 5 | change of that kind is not peculiarly distinctive of growth, but
675 I, 8 | for (the visual ray) to penetrate the transparent bodies at
676 | per
677 I, 3 | deem the things to "be" qua perceived or perceptible-and in this
678 I, 3 | to "be" qua perceived or perceptible-and in this they are in a sense
679 II, 5 | nothing-at least, nothing perceptible-prior to these, they must be all.
680 I, 10| will be "combined" to one percipient, if his sight is not sharp, (
681 II, 10| alternative, and fulfilled the perfection of the universe by making
682 II, 10| coming-to-be occupy equal periods of time. Hence, too, the
683 II, 11| hand, whose "substance" is perish, able (not imperishable)
684 II, 9 | intermittent instead of perpetual and continuous-since there
685 II, 10| should itself come-to-be perpetually" is the closest approximation
686 I, 3 | ought to give of that which perplexed us just now, i.e. of unqualified
687 I, 2 | try to disentangle these perplexities, and must therefore formulate
688 II, 10| transformation. For, had each of them persisted in its own place instead
689 I, 5 | accession (and without the persistence) of anything, and diminish
690 II, 9 | coming-to-be. Thus Socrates in the Phaedo first blames everybody else
691 I, 2 | action" or "passion" how in physical actions one thing acts and
692 I, 5 | possible to produce fire by piling logs on to the already burning
693 II, 6 | cooling equal to that of ten pints of Air); even so, they are "
694 I, 5 | which the change is taking place-and a passing-away of the contrasted
695 I, 8 | anything else than a body's place-whence it clearly follows that
696 I, 9 | are indivisible solids or planes-then indeed no body would be
697 II, 8 | than one. Indeed, even the plants, though it might be thought
698 I, 2 | inquiry. For, whereas the Platonists argue that there must be
699 II, 9 | alters" and transfigures plays a greater part in bringing,
700 I, 6 | are vague.~For all (the pluralist philosophers)—those who
701 I, 2 | to position, nor point to point-in other words, division is
702 I, 8 | these properties in the same point-so that, if it "suffers action"
703 I, 8 | through their pores if every pore be full. For how will that
704 I, 8 | contact, then-even without pores-some things will "suffer action"
705 I, 10| combination": nor will every portion of the resultant exhibit
706 I, 1 | and that Fire, various portions of it being separated off
707 I, 1 | statements of those who posit more "original reals" than
708 I, 1 | according to the shapes, "positions", and "groupings" of their
709 I, 3 | e.g. that "the hot" is a positive predication, i.e. a "form",
710 I, 1 | are infinite.~(Anaxagoras posits as elements the "homoeomeries",
711 I, 3 | is neither a thing, nor possessed of a quality or quantity,
712 I, 6 | Yet, if A moves B, it is possible-as we sometimes express it-for
713 II, 1 | reckon Water as well, thus postulating four.)~Now we may agree
714 I, 5 | this to that (viz. from potential to actual substance) is
715 II, 7 | For the actually-hot is potentially-cold and the actually cold potentially-hot;
716 II, 7 | potentially-cold and the actually cold potentially-hot; so that hot and cold, unless
717 I, 5 | with it, as if one were to pour water into wine and the
718 II, 7 | is double or triple its power-of-cooling, or otherwise related thereto
719 II, 7 | vice versa, will possess a power-of-heating that is double or triple
720 I, 3 | necessarily implies the pre-existence of something which potentially "
721 I, 3 | proceeds out of nothing pre-existing-a thesis which, more than
722 II, 1 | Timaeus is not based on any precisely-articulated conception. For he has not
723 I, 4 | whose nature it is to be predicated of the substratum; and since
724 I, 3 | clearly cannot possess predicates drawn from any of the other
725 I, 3 | most people are inclined to prefer, is that the distinction
726 I, 10| other than it. From these premises it clearly follows (i) that
727 I, 3 | which, more than any other, preoccupied and alarmed the earliest
728 I, 5 | preliminary distinctions will prepare us to grasp the cause of
729 II, 10| continuous" in such a way that it preserves its continuity with itself
730 II, 11| though your coming-to-be presupposes your father's, his coming-to-be
731 II, 1 | precise account of these presuppositions has been given in another
732 I, 4 | passes-away into, air: for air is pretty well imperceptible. If,
733 I, 5 | wine and water, it is the prevailing ingredient which is said
734 I, 2 | foundations of their theories, principles such as to admit of a wide
735 II, 9 | action. Moreover (b) their procedure is virtually the same as
736 II, 11| which is undergoing the process-is imperishable, will be numerically,
737 II, 6 | then, is the cause of this proportional consilience? Presumably
738 I, 5 | That growth has taken place proportionally, is more manifest in the
739 I, 10| the subjects we originally proposed to discuss. Our explanation
740 II, 5 | the thesis we set out to prove. That thesis-viz. that the
741 I, 3 | originative source"-belongs to the province of the other, or "prior",
742 II, 5 | applies to all the "elements", proving that there is no single
743 II, 10| by approaching and by its proximity, it-this very same body-destroys
744 II, 3 | moreover, are extremes and purest: Water and Air, on the contrary
745 I, 2 | except solids results from putting planes together: they do
746 II, 7 | part of a lump of wax and a pyramid out of some other part,
747 II, 6 | quantum, means similarity in a quale. Thus it is manifestly absurd
748 I, 3 | something" must-without qualification-"come-to-be out of not-being", so that it would be true
749 I, 5 | was not there before, now qualifies it: on the other hand, that "
750 I, 6 | things whose motion is a "qualitative affection"-i.e. a quality,
751 I, 1 | characteristic differences or qualities-as indeed he calls the sun "
752 II, 2 | contrariety, moreover, of tangible qualities-that the primary bodies are differentiated.
753 I, 5 | matter of magnitude and quality-being separable from these matters
754 I, 5 | by the accession not of quantified-flesh but of a quantified-something.
755 I, 5 | quantified-flesh but of a quantified-something. In so far as this acceding
756 I, 5 | therefore come to closer quarters with the subject of our
757 I, 3 | the solution of a further question-viz. What is the cause of the
758 II, 11| is about to occur", it is quite possible for it not to come-to-be-thus
759 I, 5 | characterized.~One might raise a further difficulty. What
760 I, 3 | discuss the other question we raised-viz. why coming-to-be continues
761 II, 6 | chance ("For thus, as it ran, it happened to meet them
762 I, 7 | not any things selected at random-are such as to suffer action
763 II, 3 | originative sources" two, viz. the rare and the dense, or rather
764 II, 3 | else by condensation and rarefaction, are in effect making their "
765 I, 8 | indivisibles" cannot become either "rarer" or "derser" inasmuch as
766 I, 8 | impossible for (the visual ray) to penetrate the transparent
767 II, 11| cyclical.~The result we have reached is logically concordant
768 I, 2 | unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis
769 I, 6 | We must ask whether they really are clements or not, i.e.
770 II, 3 | Thus the differences are reasonably distributed among the primary
771 I, 8 | the existence of motion.~Reasoning in this way, therefore,
772 I, 3 | other way), and we must recall this problem for further
773 I, 8 | indivisible" is incapable alike of receiving a sensible property (for
774 II, 11| necessary, the nexus is reciprocal-in other words, when the antecedent
775 II, 7 | make their coming-to-be reciprocal-who refuse to suppose that any
776 I, 7 | suffer action and to act reciprocally-for indeed it is these that
777 I, 10| these easily-divisible "reciprocating" materials be brought together
778 II, 11| numerically": and if these too recur numerically the same, at
779 II, 11| specifically, the same in their recurrence: for the character of the
780 II, 7 | indivisible. Similarly, it is qua reduced to a "mean" condition that
781 II, 2 | these admit of no further reduction. For the hot is not essentially
782 II, 3 | which belong to the two regions, each to each: for Fire
783 II, 6 | either absolute or highly regular: while any exceptions any
784 II, 4 | contrariety in their mutual relations because their distinctive
785 I, 2 | further-this, as we have also remarked elsewhere, in itself a paradox.
786 II, 9 | what is more, since they remove the formal cause, they invest
787 II, 10| since they are too far removed from the "originative source. "
788 I, 2 | abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts
789 II, 5 | considerations. If Fire (which is represented by F) is not to revert,
790 II, 6 | moves Earth downwards and resembles "dissociation", and Strife
791 I, 2 | asserted in the Timaeus?~To resolve bodies into planes and no
792 I, 8 | attach to it in the same respect-i.e. "matter" will be identical
793 I, 5 | of a difference in their respective "spheres"? In other words,
794 II, 4 | result from Fire and Air respectively-both qualities must change.~This
795 I, 2 | association" and "dissociation" respectively-is that a body must contain
796 I, 7 | like"-absolutely and in all respects without difference from
797 II, 8 | alone-or more than all the rest-is akin to the "form" because
798 I, 3 | definitions, the following concise restatement of our results must here
799 I, 8 | certain bodies. They do not restrict it to the bodies which act
800 II, 1 | results of "alteration" which retain the name of the substratum
801 I, 5 | metal that is being beaten, retaining its position as a whole
802 II, 10| generator" to approach and retire, will produce coming-to-be
803 II, 10| destroys by many successive retirements. For contrary effects demand
804 II, 2 | which yields to pressure by retiring into itself, though it does
805 II, 10| approaches and decay as it retreats; and we see that the two
806 II, 5 | represented by F) is not to revert, but is to be transformed
807 II, 10| the circle", because it reverts again to the beginning.
808 I, 8 | the postulate of pores is ridiculous: for, qua divisible, a body
809 II, 1 | coming-to-be and passingaway, are rightly described as "originative
810 I, 2 | a few observations. The rival treatments of the subject
811 II, 6 | upon the Earth with long roots". With such statements,
812 II, 2 | hard-soft, viscous-brittle, rough-smooth, coarse-fine. Of these (
813 I, 5 | place: but the parts of the rowing thing expand over an ever-increasing
814 I, 8 | close-set and arranged in rows: and the more transparent
815 I, 8 | into one, as drops of water run together when drop touches
816 I, 7 | originates: but the end, for the sake of which it takes place,
817 II, 6 | Ether" (to quote his words) "sank down upon the Earth with
818 I, 2 | minute section-a piece of sawdust, as it were-is extracted,
819 II, 9 | must be divided if a man saws, must become smooth if he
820 I, 1 | constituents.)~For the views of the school of Anaxagoras seem diametrically
821 II, 1 | potentially perceptible body, secondly the contrarieties (I mean,
822 I, 2 | For in what sense is that section divisible? But if what "
823 I, 2 | being divided, a minute section-a piece of sawdust, as it
824 II, 10| coherence would thus be secured to existence, because that "
825 I, 4 | as a whole (when e.g. the seed as a whole is converted
826 II, 2 | touch.~Accordingly, we must segregate the tangible differences
827 I, 7 | contraries"-and not any things selected at random-are such as to
828 I, 8 | just its own continuous self. Moreover, how can their
829 I, 1 | according to them) a "common seminary" of all the "homoeomeries".~
830 I, 2 | extracted, and that in this sense-a body "comes away" from the
831 I, 8 | agent" in the strictest sense-enters in through certain pores,
832 II, 7 | potentially" in a special sense-not as matter "exists potentially",
833 I, 8 | incapable alike of receiving a sensible property (for nothing can "
834 I, 8 | coming to-be", while by separating they produce "passing-away".
835 I, 2 | will become clearer in the sequel." Meantime, so much may
836 I, 8 | body, the more frequent and serial they suppose its pores to
837 II, 9 | said to "come-to-be" qua sharing in," to "pass-away" qua "
838 I, 10| percipient, if his sight is not sharp, (but not to another,) while
839 II, 10| is longer and to others shorter.~And there are facts of
840 I, 2 | magnitudes: we must now show that it conceals a faulty
841 II, 5 | Water was moist and then showed itself white. Thus it is
842 II, 11| cyclical fashion (as, e.g. showers and air, so that it must
843 I, 8 | passion. Our arguments have shown that it is either false
844 I, 7 | being warmed", "what is sick is being healed": and in
845 I, 10| to one percipient, if his sight is not sharp, (but not to
846 II, 6 | equality in the quantum, means similarity in a quale. Thus it is manifestly
847 I, 5 | of this incorporeal and sizeless something will always be "
848 I, 8 | affected by one another: the "slightly-hot indivisible", e.g. will
849 I, 2 | associated", air comes-to-be more slowly. Our doctrine will become
850 I, 2 | been "dissociated" into smallish drops, air comes-to-be out
851 II, 9 | a man saws, must become smooth if he planes, and so on
852 I, 3 | qualification. And (ii) so-and-so "comes-to-be-something",
853 I, 7 | itself: and yet if that were so-if "like" tended in fact to
854 I, 5 | result e.g. is potentially so-much-flesh-it produces growth: for it
855 II, 9 | account for coming-to-be. Thus Socrates in the Phaedo first blames
856 I, 1 | white-black, dry-moist, soft-hard, and so forth) are, all
857 I, 8 | lightness, and hardness and softness. And yet Democritus says "
858 I, 5 | differ from one another solely because of a difference
859 II, 2 | dry-so completely, that its solidification has actually been due to
860 II, 2 | foreign mosture), whereas "solidigied" is that which has lost
861 II, 11| instance, is it necessary that solstices shall come-to-be, i.e. impossible
862 I, 10| by the argument would be solved.~Now (i) we do not speak
863 I, 3 | comes-to-be something and out of something-I mean, e.g. comes-to-be-healthy
864 I, 5 | grow by the accession of something-is possible, but not that any
865 I, 2 | always a contact of two somethings, i.e. there is always something
866 I, 10| come-to-be and pass-away. As soon, therefore, as these distinctions
867 II, 3 | hot and moist (Air being a sort of aqueous vapour); and
868 II, 1 | the question remains: What sorts of contrarieties, and how
869 II, 9 | these theories, however, is sound. For (a) if the Forms are
870 I, 5 | diminishing changes its spatial position of necessity, though
871 II, 8 | simple" body is to be found specially and most abundantly in its
872 II, 4 | theory by the following speculations concerning them.~
873 I, 5 | difference in their respective "spheres"? In other words, do they
874 II, 10| causes must all of them, in spite of their plurality, be in
875 I, 5 | process of growing and the sprocess of diminishing in each and
876 II, 3 | who postulate two from the start-as Parmenides postulated Fire
877 I, 8 | maintaining it, they took as their starting-point what naturally comes first.~
878 I, 2 | philosophers made any definite statement about growth, except such
879 I, 7 | that each group is in fact stating a part, whereas they ought
880 II, 7 | that manner, but only as a stone and a brick "both come-to-be
881 II, 7 | comes-to-be out of bricks and stones: and the "Mixture", of which
882 | stop
883 II, 5 | continue ad infinitum in a straight line in either direction,
884 I, 9 | veins of "the susceptible" stretching continuously through the
885 I, 8 | agent-the "agent" in the strictest sense-enters in through
886 II, 6 | demonstrated them-whether strictly or laxly or in some other
887 II, 10| we affirm, Nature always strives after "the better". Now "
888 I, 8 | advanced in regard to the structure of certain bodies. They
889 I, 2 | unravel this dilemma too-and a stubborn one we shall find it. The
890 I, 3 | qualification; for we say that the student "comes-to-be-learned", not "
891 II, 10| plurality, be in some way subordinated to a single "originative
892 I, 3 | coming-to-be. But the question subsequently formulated involves a different
893 II, 7 | out of Water; for their substralum is something common to them
894 I, 4 | matter", because all these substrata are receptive of "contrarieties"
895 II, 2 | For the fine" consists of subtle particles; but that which
896 I, 3 | Nature. For perhaps, if we succeed in clearing up this question,
897 II, 3 | which corresponds to air is "such-as-air": and so on with the rest
898 II, 3 | corresponding to fire is "such-as-fire, not fire: that which corresponds
899 I, 9 | losing its continuity. It has suffered this change not by "division"
900 II, 7 | the matter.~Perhaps we may suggest the following solution. (
901 II, 2 | exhibits this character in a superlative degree. Hence it is evident
902 I, 10| is alone susceptible-or superlatively susceptible, the other being
903 I, 9 | inconceivable results. And (iii) the suposition is open to this general
904 II, 4 | place. Let us nevertheless supplement our theory by the following
905 I, 2 | into nothing. For it is supposed-there is a point everywhere within
906 II, 5 | coming-to-be. Besides, nobody supposes a single "element" to persist,
907 II, 1 | Some maintain it is single, supposing it to be, e.g. Air or Fire,
908 I, 8 | hard or cold. Yet it is surely a paradox that an exception
909 I, 10| the constituents is alone susceptible-or superlatively susceptible,
910 II, 2 | whiteness (and blackness), nor sweetness (and bitterness), nor (similarly)
911 I, 8 | pores are in reciprocal symmetry". The most systematic and
912 I, 8 | reciprocal symmetry". The most systematic and consistent theory, however,
913 I, 2 | second predicate will at. tach to it potentially, but the
914 I, 7 | indeed, should either of them tend to act any more than the
915 I, 7 | if that were so-if "like" tended in fact to act qua "like"-
916 II, 1 | matter. For this "body" of theirs cannot possibly exist without
917 I, 8 | while the intervals between them-which he calls "pores"-must be
918 I, 8 | if it acts by contact, then-even without pores-some things
919 II, 10| 10~As to our own theory-we have given a general account
920 II, 7 | power-of-cooling, or otherwise related thereto in some similar ratio. Thus
921 I, 3 | treatment of the first of these-of the immovable "originative
922 II, 5 | we set out to prove. That thesis-viz. that the process cannot
923 II, 6 | constitutes, the "nature" of each thing-a "nature" about which he
924 II, 6 | essential nature of each thing-not merely to quote his words) "
925 I, 7 | either of the two opposed things-being as it were a "kind"; and
926 I, 3 | of contraries? For these things-Fire, Earth, Water, Air-are characterized
927 II, 10| too, is why all the other things-the things, I mean, which are
928 I, 10| from them. Moreover, some things-viz. those Which have the same
929 II, 9 | losing," the "Form". Hence he thinks that "assuming the truth
930 I, 2 | below the surface or made a thorough examination of a single
931 I, 10| does not "combine" with ten thousand gallons of water: for its
932 I, 2 | takes place through and through-for this would have resulted
933 I, 9 | not divisible through and through-if, on the contrary, there
934 I, 10| must be uniform in texture throughout-any part of such a compound
935 II, 5 | only (as Plato wrote in the Timacus)." Now it has been proved
936 II, 10| of time. Hence, too, the times-i.e. the lives-of the several
937 II, 6 | is comparable with many times-that-amount of Air, as being "equally"
938 II, 7 | result from two of them taken together-e.g. from "cold" and hot",
939 I, 8 | obvious that it follows with tolerable consistency from the assumptions
940 I, 2 | to unravel this dilemma too-and a stubborn one we shall
941 I, 3 | coming-to-be.~Our new question too-viz. "what is the cause of the
942 I, 8 | in maintaining it, they took as their starting-point
943 II, 5 | have dealt with this last topic before the thesis we set
944 I, 3 | So much, then, on these topics.~
945 I, 6 | moved" and yet itself be touched by nothing-for we say sometimes
946 I, 10| it disappears, leaving no trace except the colour it has
947 I, 3 | they are in a sense on the track of the truth, though what
948 I, 2 | single constituent. For Tragedy and Comedy are both composed
949 I, 8 | therefore, they were led to transcend sense-perception, and to
950 II, 9 | criticizing. For what "alters" and transfigures plays a greater part in
951 II, 5 | another: or they must undergo transformation-either all of them, or some only (
952 I, 1 | elements to undergo a similar transformation-not only then, but also now-if,
953 I, 2 | different people: it is "transposed" by a small additional ingredient,
954 I, 2 | coming-to-be with them, if one "transposes" the same by "turning" and "
955 I, 2 | appears utterly other by the "transposition" of a single constituent.
956 II, 10| bodies, since each them is travelling towards its own place, have
957 I, 3 | moved. And the accurate treatment of the first of these-of
958 I, 2 | observations. The rival treatments of the subject now before
959 I, 2 | because otherwise "The Triangle" will be more than one",
960 II, 7 | power-of-heating that is double or triple its power-of-cooling, or
961 II, 1 | actually says" that the truest account is to affirm that
962 II, 11| to come-to-be. We cannot truly say, e.g. that "it is absolutely
963 I, 3 | no difference. For we are trying to discover not what undergoes
964 I, 3 | come-to-be".~The distinction here turns upon the difference of the
965 I, 7 | For (i) most thinkers are unanimous in maintaining (a) that "
966 I, 3 | what is the cause of the unbroken continuity of coming-to-be?"-
967 II, 11| substance"-that which is undergoing the process-is imperishable,
968 II, 9 | universal facilitates the understanding of its specific forms.~The "
969 I, 5 | this description may be understood in two different ways, in
970 I, 10| both of them may survive undestroyed. (For this was the difficulty
971 II, 10| since its distance is thus unequal, its movement will be irregular.
972 I, 3 | finite? For, presumably, the unfailing continuity of coming-to-be
973 II, 10| must be single, unmoved, ungenerated, and incapable of "alteration";
974 I, 10| and "combination" is unification of the "combinables", resulting
975 II, 5 | one out of another, is not uniform-since the process of reciprocal
976 II, 10| universe by making coming-to-be uninterrupted: for the greatest possible
977 II, 10| will produce coming-to-be uninterruptedly. At the same time it is
978 II, 6 | are measured by the same unit; and therefore both were
979 I, 3 | knowable "is" and what is unknowable "is not"-perception on their
980 I, 7 | the other; and (b) that "unlikes", i.e. "differents", are
981 I, 2 | discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready
982 I, 3 | unqualified not-being.~Now "unqulified" means either (i) the primary
983 | until
984 II, 11| from the being of the "upper revolution" it follows that
985 I, 8 | general criticism we must urge that to postulate pores
986 I, 2 | separated. Hence (it is urged) the process of dividing
987 I, 1 | That is why Empedocles too uses language to this effect,
988 I, 1 | failed to understand his own utterance. He says, at all events,
989 I, 2 | ingredient, and appears utterly other by the "transposition"
990 I, 8 | into reciprocal contact.~V. Again, what is it which
991 II, 9 | present as well-the cause vaguely dreamed of by all our predecessors,
992 I, 3 | been used up long ago and vanished away assuming of course
993 II, 3 | being a sort of aqueous vapour); and Water is cold and
994 I, 9 | But its susceptibility varies in degree, according as
995 II, 5 | have to pass through such a vast number of contrarieties-and
996 I, 9 | in the metals there are veins of "the susceptible" stretching
997 I, 5 | contained in" the water as in a vessel. This is impossible. For (
998 II, 9 | Moreover (b) their procedure is virtually the same as if one were
999 II, 2 | heavy-light, hard-soft, viscous-brittle, rough-smooth, coarse-fine.
1000 I, 8 | It is impossible for (the visual ray) to penetrate the transparent