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 1   I,  2 |      something different from the elements, there will be some other
 2   I,  3 |  similarly also with those of the elements. And so, if the body which
 3   I,  7 |       there be several dissimilar elements, each infinite? Each would
 4   I,  8 |         identity of form in these elements and ours, then the whole
 5   I,  8 |        and the distinction of the elements depends upon the distinction
 6   I,  8 |       movements are the same, the elements must also be the same everywhere.
 7   I,  8 |           must be one.~The bodily elements are three, and therefore
 8   I,  8 |       therefore the places of the elements will be three also; the
 9   I,  8 |          and number of the bodily elements, the place of each, and
10   I,  10|           world was formed out of elements which were formerly otherwise
11   I,  10|         it is clear that when the elements come together the result
12  II,  3 |           to explain.) these four elements generation clearly is involved,
13  II,  3 |         identical relation of the elements of bodies to one another.
14  II,  13|           might be made. When the elements were separated off by Hate,
15 III,  1 |     anywhere, it must be in these elements and things composed of them.~
16 III,  1 |           element nor composed of elements. Again, if it is the number
17 III,  2 |          them. For if the various elements are constrained by one another
18 III,  2 |        ordered world was made the elements moved without order. Their
19 III,  2 |         world has its constituent elements in separation, and therefore
20 III,  3 |          what is primary, and the elements are the primary constituents
21 III,  3 |          which of such bodies are elements, and why; and after that
22 III,  3 |       earth, since one sees these elements exuded from them; and, on
23 III,  3 |           Empedocles’ view of the elements. Empedocles says that fire
24 III,  3 |       this Anaxagoras denies. His elements are the homoeomerous things,
25 III,  3 |       plain, then, that there are elements, and why.~
26 III,  4 |           consider is whether the elements are finite or infinite in
27 III,  4 |           homoeomerous bodies are elements. Any one who adopts this
28 III,  4 |         not assert an infinity of elements, since the hypothesis of
29 III,  4 |          a limit to the number of elements.~There is, further, another
30 III,  4 |         the shapes of the various elements, except so far to allot
31 III,  4 |         not infinite, plainly the elements will not be an infinity.
32 III,  4 | contradict themselves. For if the elements are atomic, air, earth,
33 III,  4 |           deny that the number of elements is infinite.~
34 III,  5 |           Since the number of the elements must be limited, it remains
35 III,  5 |   priority. Generation out of the elements is, as they say, synthesis,
36 III,  5 |           and generation into the elements is analysis, so that the
37 III,  5 |      involved equally in the view elements and distinguishes them by
38 III,  5 |       masses and of their several elements are in the same ratio, so
39 III,  5 |          total mass of air as the elements of each are to one another,
40 III,  5 |         an element or composed of elements, since a part of fire will
41 III,  5 |           one element. But if the elements are not an infinity and
42 III,  6 |          must inquire whether the elements are eternal or subject to
43 III,  6 |    quickly the smaller it is. The elements of bodies must therefore
44 III,  6 |       equally impossible that the elements should be generated from
45 III,  6 |          a body distinct from the elements and prior to them. But if
46 III,  6 |  lightness, it will be one of the elements; and if it has no tendency
47 III,  6 |  somewhere, it will be one of the elements; and if it is not in a place,
48 III,  6 |       must needs be together. The elements therefore cannot be generated
49 III,  7 |          reduce the generation of elements out of one another to an
50 III,  7 |       Therefore the generation of elements out of one another will
51 III,  7 |     mutual transformations of the elements cannot take place by means
52 III,  7 |      first difficulty is that the elements cannot all be generated
53 III,  7 |       Again, in the case of those elements which do suffer dissolution,
54 III,  8 |       more than these because the elements which it recognizes are
55 III,  8 |         best for modelling-so the elements should be conceived as a
56 III,  8 |        other continuous body? The elements alone cannot produce them
57 III,  8 |     planes; for this produces the elements themselves, not bodies made
58 III,  8 |        that the difference of the elements does not depend upon their
59  IV,  2 |     distinctions between the four elements, it is in a stronger position
60  IV,  4 |        The reason is that all the elements except fire have weight