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1 I, 3 | using the words "heavy" and "light", sufficiently, at least, 2 I, 3 | towards the centre, and "light" to that which moves naturally 3 I, 3 | for things are heavy and light relatively to one another; 4 I, 3 | another; air, for instance, is light relatively to water, and 5 I, 3 | relatively to water, and water light relatively to earth. The 6 I, 7 | also be examined in the light of more general considerations 7 I, 7 | body is, strictly speaking, light: and if lightness be universal, 8 II, 7 | situated. The warmth and light which proceed from them 9 II, 13| determines the heavy and the light. Rather that movement caused 10 II, 13| the pre-existent heavy and light things to go to the middle 11 II, 13| the whirl began, heavy and light existed; and what can have 12 II, 13| by these that heavy and light are determined.~It is to 13 II, 14| whole. For fire and other light things move to the extremity 14 III, 1 | heavier than something and a light thing lighter than something, 15 III, 1 | need not be itself heavy or light, just as a large thing is 16 III, 1 | dense body, and what is light rare. Dense differs from 17 III, 1 | then, if it may be heavy or light, may be dense or rare. But 18 III, 1 | some of the planes will be light and others heavy (which 19 III, 2 | towards the centre and the light bodies away from it. But 20 III, 2 | the force. For air is both light and heavy, and thus qua 21 III, 2 | and heavy, and thus qua light produces upward motion, 22 III, 2 | that all bodies are either light or heavy, and (2) how unnatural 23 IV, 1 | consider the terms "heavy" and "light". We must ask what the bodies 24 IV, 1 | we call things heavy and light because they have the power 25 IV, 1 | b) a relative heavy and light. Of two heavy things, such 26 IV, 1 | that the one is relatively light, the other relatively heavy. 27 IV, 1 | the heavy is or what the light is, but only the relative 28 IV, 1 | centre below.) By absolutely light, then, we mean that which 29 IV, 1 | By lighter or relatively light we mean that one, of two 30 IV, 2 | the most part spoken of light and heavy things only in 31 IV, 2 | smaller number is relatively light. As a larger quantity of 32 IV, 2 | the absolutely heavy and light. The facts are that fire 33 IV, 2 | are that fire is always light and moves upward, while 34 IV, 2 | distinction of relatively light and heavy between these 35 IV, 2 | the distinction between light and heavy. To others the 36 IV, 2 | case a body is relatively light when it contains a relatively 37 IV, 2 | to analyse the notions of light and heavy at all; and those 38 IV, 2 | are absolutely heavy and light, or in other words why some 39 IV, 2 | lighter than the absolutely light, which nevertheless moves 40 IV, 2 | so, since the absolutely light is always lighter than bodies 41 IV, 2 | which is lighter need not be light, because in common speech 42 IV, 2 | between heavy things and light. There is also an absurdity 43 IV, 2 | composite bodies are some light and some heavy; they had 44 IV, 2 | two things are themselves light and heavy respectively, 45 IV, 2 | can be absolutely heavy or light: and if there is one matter 46 IV, 2 | intermediate between the absolutely light and heavy when compared 47 IV, 2 | there is nothing absolutely light and nothing which moves 48 IV, 3 | that we will inquire into light and heavy and of the various 49 IV, 3 | is potentially heavy or light, and the movement of each 50 IV, 3 | quantity: and so in place, a light thing goes upward, a heavy 51 IV, 3 | that of the heavy and the light, the bodies are thought 52 IV, 3 | reason why the heavy and the light appear more than these things 53 IV, 3 | into being out of water, light out of heavy, it goes to 54 IV, 3 | upper place. It is forthwith light: becoming is at an end, 55 IV, 4 | things, from the absolutely light, which is that which rises 56 IV, 4 | the generic character of "light" and "heavy", in order to 57 IV, 4 | them is absolutely either light or heavy. Both are lighter 58 IV, 4 | other bodies are severally light and heavy, and evidently 59 IV, 4 | bodies will be heavy and light respectively. Therefore 60 IV, 4 | body which is regarded as light in one place is regarded 61 IV, 4 | that there is an absolutely light and an absolutely heavy 62 IV, 4 | body. And by absolutely light I mean one which of its 63 IV, 4 | But is also similarly a light body. For we see with our 64 IV, 4 | away from which that of light things is directed, is manifest 65 IV, 4 | the duality of heavy and light in the spatial duality centre 66 IV, 4 | there is another heavy and light; namely, water and air. 67 IV, 4 | that which is heavy and light: as potentially possessing 68 IV, 4 | possessing the other, for the light. It is the same matter, 69 IV, 5 | the one kind of matter is light and always moves upward, 70 IV, 5 | there will be no absolutely light body, if superiority of 71 IV, 6 | examination of the heavy and the light and of the phenomena connected