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 1 2|       opinion that the eye is of water; not, however, when he goes
 2 2|      organ proper is composed of water, yet vision appertains to
 3 2|         property common alike to water and to air. But water is
 4 2|         to water and to air. But water is more easily confined
 5 2|          eye proper, consists of water. That it does so is proved
 6 2|        decomposing is seen to be water, and this in undeveloped
 7 2|      part of the eye consists of water is easily intelligible,
 8 2|          is easily intelligible, water being translucent.~Now,
 9 2|      this is not air, it must be water. The soul or its perceptive
10 2|  concerned in vision consists of water, that the part immediately
11 3|    something peculiar to air, or water, or any other of the bodies
12 3|    interior of the body.~Air and water, too [i.e. as well as determinately
13 3|    bodies called translucent, as water and such others, or determinate
14 3|        an object appearing under water or enveloped in a haze,
15 4|        Now the natural substance water per se tends to be tasteless.
16 4|    tasteless. But [since without water tasting is impossible] either (
17 4|          a) we must suppose that water contains in itself [uniformly
18 4|        of Empedocles; or (b) the water must be a sort of matter,
19 4|    savour are generated from the water, though different kinds
20 4| different parts, or else (c) the water is in itself quite undifferentiated
21 4|        drawing anything from the water in the ground, but to a
22 4|         likewise impossible that water should be a material qualified
23 4|        of different parts of the water]; for we see different kinds
24 4|          generated from the same water, having it as their nutriment.~(
25 4|   therefore, to suppose that the water is changed by passively
26 4|         Now, it is manifest that water does not contract the quality
27 4|        agency of Heat alone. For water is of all liquids the thinnest,
28 4|  viscosity, is more ductile than water, the latter being uncohesive
29 4|         in its particles; whence water is more difficult than oil
30 4|         But since perfectly pure water does not, when subjected
31 4|         philosophers assert that water has qualities like those
32 4|    Savours in a liquid cause the water in which they wash to acquire
33 5|     Sapid Dry effects in air and water alike, but in a different
34 5|          effects in the Moist of water only. We customarily predicate
35 5|     Translucency of both air and water in common; but it is not
36 5|          only: it also exists in water. This is proved by the case
37 5|       faculty of smell, although water contains no air (for whenever
38 5|          air is generated within water it rises to the surface),
39 5|      were to assume that air and water are both moist, it would
40 5|           viz. Fire, Air, Earth, Water, are inodorous, because
41 5|          for [unlike "elemental" water] it contains savour and
42 5|       contain more ["elemental"] water are less odorous than others.
43 5|      other, inasmuch as they are water [to a greater degree than
44 5|        when condensed turns into water; the latter, in a particular
45 5|      exhalation consists of mere water [which, being tasteless,
46 5|       exhalation cannot occur in water at all, though, as has been
47 5|         essentially moist) or in water, should imbibe the influence
48 5|    produces in moist media, i.e. water and air, an effect as of
49 5| therefore, that Odour is in both water and air what Savour is in
50 5|        and air what Savour is in water alone. This explains why
51 5|         of smell both in air and water. Accordingly, the object
52 5|     outside them. But since even water by itself alone, that is,
53 6|       like [their media] Air and Water, are continuous, but the
54 6|      e.g. it is conceivable that water should be frozen simultaneously