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1001   I,  4 |            continue to live, and each segment is thought to retain the
1002   I,  2 |              to live) is derived from sein (to boil), while those who
1003  II,  5 |             development into its true self or actuality) or at least
1004  II,  4 |        existence of no substance is a self-generation but only a self-maintenance.~
1005  II,  3 |       triangle, the sensory power the self-nutritive. Hence we must ask in the
1006  II,  4 |             remains not indeed as the self-same individual but continues
1007   I,  2 |               with the hot argue that sen (to live) is derived from
1008 III,  3 |           that the greatest amount of sense-illusion is possible.~The motion
1009  II,  6 |        special objects of the several senses-constitute the objects of sense in
1010 III,  1 |            essential condition of all sensibility-and earth either in none or,
1011  II,  5 |              our knowledge of what is sensible-on the same ground, viz. that
1012 III,  2 |         sensible objects are gone the sensings and imaginings continue
1013 III,  8 |            image; for images are like sensuous contents except in that
1014 III,  6 |           thought you think each half separately, then by the same act you
1015  II,  11|             for touch were a membrane separating us from the object without
1016  II,  3 |            living beings-constitute a series, each successive term of
1017 III,  7 |              the thinking soul images serve as if they were contents
1018  II,  1 |            the mouth of animals, both serving for the absorption of food.
1019   I,  3 |              these he subdivided into seven circles. All this implies
1020  II,  8 |              smooth bodies, to cast a shadow, which is the distinguishing
1021   I,  2 |               the air which we see in shafts of light coming through
1022  II,  8 |             the air to rebound and be shaken off from it in one piece.~
1023   I,  2 |               he says that of all the shapes the spherical is the most
1024  II,  4 |              itself except what has a share of soul in it.~Empedocles
1025  II,  7 |             constitutes the uppermost shell of the physical Cosmos.
1026  II,  9 |               envelope, which must be shifted or drawn back in order that
1027  II,  7 |           things that appear fiery or shining. This class of objects has
1028  II,  8 |             different sounding bodies show themselves only in actual
1029 III,  3 |             us even when our eyes are shut. Neither is imagination
1030  II,  10|                it is in this way that sick persons find everything
1031  II,  12|          produces the impression is a signet of bronze or gold, but its
1032  II,  12|             takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold;
1033 III,  7 |              faculty of sense that it signifies an enemy, because it sees
1034  II,  10|             apprehends both sound and silence, of which the one is audible
1035  II,  1 |             in spite of their extreme simplicity are "organs"; e.g. the leaf
1036  II,  11|             the concussion of both is simultaneous.~In general, flesh and the
1037   I,  5 |               of earth such as bones, sinews, and hair seem to be wholly
1038  II,  11|           touch, the real organ being situated farther inward. The problem
1039  II,  2 |              a part distinct in local situation as well? In the case of
1040 III,  1 |                    1~THAT there is no sixth sense in addition to the
1041  II,  1 |              This must suffice as our sketch or outline determination
1042  II,  5 |          altered when he is using his skill in building a house.~What
1043 III,  1 |              to have eyes beneath its skin); so that, if there is no
1044  II,  7 |               ant on the vault of the sky; that is an impossibility.
1045  II,  8 |               one is quick, the other slow.~Let the foregoing suffice
1046  II,  8 |              fast, and what is grave, slowly, but that the difference
1047  II,  7 |              as a medium for what has smell-I say "in water" because animals
1048  II,  9 |              run parallel to those of smells-the only difference being that
1049  II,  12|             smell is just what can be smelt, and if it produces any
1050  II,  8 |             mass, a result due to the smoothness of the surface with which
1051 III,  7 |             if one had thought of the snubnosed not as snub-nosed but as
1052 III,  7 |              a particular person.~The so-called abstract objects the mind
1053 III,  10|        coincide as e.g. in a ball and socket joint; for there the convex
1054  II,  8 |           things which are smooth and solid-the latter are said to have
1055  II,  8 |             sound is an impact of two solids against one another and
1056   I,  2 |            advance we are to find the solutions, to call into council the
1057   I,  1 |         single and general method for solving the question of essence,
1058  II,  11|              tight over the flesh, as soon as this web is touched the
1059   I,  2 |               mixture of seeds of all sorts he calls the elements of
1060   I,  5 |         should give the definition of soul-it is impossible that they
1061   I,  3 |        movement is only incidental to soul-nor is, a fortiori, the body
1062   I,  3 |           also. After compounding the soul-substance out of the elements and
1063  II,  8 |               sharp blow, if it is to sound-the movement of the whip must
1064  II,  8 |               body only to generate a sound-there must be a body impinging
1065   I,  1 |          certain cases it may be to a specialist, e.g. a carpenter or a physician,
1066   I,  3 |       appropriate to another field of speculation, let us dismiss it for the
1067  II,  8 |               due to their respective speeds. There seems to be a sort
1068   I,  5 |             whether we speak of small spheres or of large units, or, quite
1069  II,  8 |         chamber or even, owing to the spirals, into the outer ear. If
1070  II,  12|             their vehicles, e.g. what splits the trunk of a tree is not
1071  II,  11|               moist, of which we have spoken earlier in our treatise
1072  II,  8 |            say, "have no sound", e.g. sponges or wool, others which have,
1073  II,  4 |             mode of generation is not spontaneous, the most natural act is
1074  II,  5 |             that never ignites itself spontaneously, but requires an agent which
1075 III,  6 |              heads of many a creature sprouted without necks" they afterwards
1076  II,  3 |             its predecessor, e.g. the square the triangle, the sensory
1077  II,  8 |              what is sharp as it were stabs, while what is blunt pushes,
1078  II,  5 |            separate names for the two stages of potentiality; we have
1079  II,  1 |              shape given to it by the stamp are one, or generally the
1080 III,  11|            and there must be a single standard to measure by, for that
1081 III,  5 |            makes them all (the latter standing to the former, as e.g. an
1082 III,  4 |               as yet nothing actually stands written: this is exactly
1083   I,  1 |              the facts which form the starting-points in different subjects must
1084  II,  5 |            sense, as has already been stated, what acts and what is acted
1085  II,  2 |              are, in spite of certain statements to the contrary, incapable
1086  II,  1 |            real eye than the eye of a statue or of a painted figure.
1087  II,  4 |     expression "wherewith the ship is steered"; that may mean either (
1088  II,  4 |            same ground go yet another step farther back and have some
1089 III,  10|             object of appetite is the stimulant of mind practical; and that
1090  II,  7 |            are invisible, in darkness stimulate the sense; that is, things
1091   I,  1 |               others faint and feeble stimulations produce these emotions,
1092  II,  10|              the former is the normal stimulus of taste. What is drinkable
1093  II,  10|           that a variety of fruit is "stoneless". So too taste has as its
1094   I,  1 |       physicist would describe it as "stones, bricks, and timbers"; but
1095 III,  4 |            same line when it has been straightened out.~Again in the case of
1096 III,  2 |               case of smell excess of strength whether in the direction
1097  II,  11|              made of making a web and stretching it tight over the flesh,
1098   I,  5 |              that there is one thing, Strife, which he does not know,
1099  II,  8 |             everything sounds when it strikes or is struck, e.g. if one
1100  II,  12|            too violently twanging the strings of a lyre. This explains
1101  II,  4 |              towards which all things strive, that for the sake of which
1102  II,  8 |            just as one might get in a stroke at a heap or whirl of sand
1103  II,  6 |              the nature of things the structure of each several sense is
1104  II,  4 |               It is necessary for the student of these forms of soul first
1105 III,  2 |        without the other. The earlier students of nature were mistaken
1106  II,  4 |        psychic power which we are now studying may be described as that
1107   I,  3 |               points; one of these he subdivided into seven circles. All
1108   I,  1 |          starting-points in different subjects must be different, as e.g.
1109 III,  12|            the movement goes on until submersion has taken place, and in
1110 III,  12|              be. All the other senses subserve well-being and for that
1111  II,  8 |         articulate speech is a luxury subserving its possessor’s well-being;
1112  II,  5 |              alteration, viz. (i) the substitution of one quality for another,
1113  II,  3 |         parallel; for the particulars subsumed under the common name in
1114   I,  5 |               maintain that soul is a subtle kind of body, is on the
1115   I,  4 |          number a number or a unit is subtracted, the remainder is another
1116   I,  5 |         composed of the elements they succeed in identifying the soul
1117  II,  4 |               way possible to it, and success is possible in varying degrees;
1118 III,  9 |               movement; for those who successfully resist temptation have appetite
1119  II,  8 |              the power of producing a succession of notes which differ in
1120  II,  3 |      beings-constitute a series, each successive term of which potentially
1121 III,  3 |               and Homer’s phrase "For suchlike is man’s mind” means the
1122   I,  5 |             all its parts. If the air sucked in is homogeneous, but soul
1123  II,  8 |              it must be struck with a sudden sharp blow, if it is to
1124   I,  5 |           pointing out; for who would suggest that stone or man could
1125 III,  4 |            mind.~The problem might be suggested: if thinking is a passive
1126  II,  4 |            increase itself. Hence the suggestion that in both plants and
1127   I,  2 |            whatever is sound in their suggestions and avoid their errors.~
1128   I,  1 |           parts, the further question suggests itself: ought we not before
1129  II,  9 |              as man is, e.g. bitumen, sulphur, and the like. These animals
1130   I,  1 |             determine in which of the summa genera soul lies, what it
1131 III,  10|             soul. To state the matter summarily at present, that which is
1132 III,  8 |                          8~Let us now summarize our results about soul,
1133   I,  2 |           perpetual movement.~of More superficial writers, some, e.g. Hippo,
1134  II,  9 |          organ of smell has a certain superiority over that in all other animals
1135  II,  4 |           limit so long as there is a supply of fuel, in the case of
1136   I,  1 |             affection of the body. In support of this we may point to
1137   I,  2 |              earth-earth has found no supporter unless we count as such
1138   I,  4 |               popular discussion. Its supporters say that the soul is a kind
1139 III,  9 |             the same or not the same, supposing we determine to posit separate
1140 III,  2 |              and single. On any other supposition even if I perceived sweet
1141   I,  5 |                whatever it is, is the supremely important factor. But it
1142   I,  5 |             holds the parts together? Surely not the body; on the contrary
1143   I,  5 |             this does not last is not surprising, for they no longer possess
1144   I,  1 |               blood or warm substance surround the heart. The latter assigns
1145  II,  8 |              only this but the region surrounding the heart. That is why when
1146   I,  5 |          themselves a portion of what surrounds them, the partisans of this
1147  II,  10|       flavoured and tasteable body is suspended in a liquid matter, and
1148  II,  10|              we say that a species of swallow is "footless" or that a
1149 III,  2 |           whether in the direction of sweetness or bitterness is destructive.)
1150  II,  2 |      analogous to the conclusion of a syllogism; e.g. What is squaring?
1151   I,  3 |              in this case the sailors tare not walking. Recognizing
1152  II,  10|            what can be tasted and the tasteless-the latter in the sense of what
1153  II,  9 |               and that the species of tastes run parallel to those of
1154   I,  1 |         properties; of these some are taught to be affections proper
1155 III,  6 |             is not possible, then, to tell what part of the line it
1156 III,  6 |               every continuum whether temporal or spatial.~Points and similar
1157 III,  3 |              i.e. men) because of the temporary eclipse in them of mind
1158 III,  9 |               who successfully resist temptation have appetite and desire
1159 III,  1 |            but white, they would have tended to escape our notice and
1160   I,  1 |              is already in a state of tension resembling its condition
1161   I,  4 |            starting from the soul and terminating with the movements, actual
1162   I,  3 |               intermediate movements, termini, and bodies. Further, since
1163 III,  9 |             often thinks of something terrifying or pleasant without enjoining
1164   I,  5 |             like them, and additional testimony is furnished by this new
1165 III,  2 |             and their objects. For as the-acting-and-being-acted-upon is to be found in the passive,
1166 III,  2 |             savour. This statement of theirs is partly true, partly false: "
1167   I,  3 |          outside the process, and all theoretical processes come to a close
1168         | therein
1169   I,  1 |              that there is no type of thinker who concerns himself with
1170   I,  3 |        something which mind is always thinking-what can this be? For all practical
1171  II,  1 |               is called "a this", and thirdly (c) in the sense of that
1172  II,  5 |     appropriate occasion may be found thoroughly to clear up all this. At
1173 III,  3 |            something to be fearful or threatening, emotion is immediately
1174 III,  2 |               difference); it asserts thus-both now and that the objects
1175  II,  9 |           honey, "pungent" to that of thyme, and so on.~In the same
1176  II,  11|               a web and stretching it tight over the flesh, as soon
1177  II,  4 |               the other way round, as timber is worked by a carpenter
1178   I,  1 |               as "stones, bricks, and timbers"; but there is a third possible
1179  II,  8 |               in length and pitch and timbre. The metaphor is based on
1180   I,  3 |            moved cannot be incidental to-as it is to what is white or
1181  II,  12|              precisely as concord and tone are destroyed by too violently
1182  II,  10|                when they taste, their tongues are overflowing with bitter
1183  II,  4 |     counteracting force, they will be torn asunder; if there is, this
1184 III,  2 |              cases each aspect of the total actuality has a distinct
1185 III,  1 |                hearing, smell, taste, touch-may be established by the following
1186  II,  11|        perception of these is that of touch-that part of the body in which
1187   I,  2 |  Incorporeality, and each of these is traced back to the first principles.
1188   I,  2 |             katapsuxis). Such are the traditional opinions concerning soul,
1189   I,  5 |          three ways in which soul has traditionally been defined; one group
1190  II,  8 |             grave are here metaphors, transferred from their proper sphere,
1191  II,  4 |             contrary must not only be transformable into the other and vice
1192  II,  4 |             other. Many a contrary is transformed into its other and vice
1193 III,  1 |          perceive the kind of objects transmissible through both); and if of
1194  II,  8 |               whirl of sand as it was traveling rapidly past.~An echo occurs,
1195  II,  7 |              in speaking of light as "travelling" or being at a given moment
1196   I,  3 |           mind can never exhaustively traverse them; if the former, the
1197  II,  7 |       observed facts; if the distance traversed were short, the movement
1198 III,  12|          impulse so that the movement traverses a medium the first mover
1199  II,  4 |             that first of all we must treat of nutrition and reproduction,
1200   I,  1 |               common predicate"-being treated either as nothing at all
1201  II,  11|            have spoken earlier in our treatise on the elements. The organ
1202   I,  2 |              mind, but in practice he treats them as a single substance,
1203  II,  12|            what splits the trunk of a tree is not the sound of the
1204 III,  9 |        irrational; and if the soul is tripartite appetite will be found in
1205   I,  2 |             what appears with what is true-that is why he commends Homer
1206 III,  3 |              think falsely as well as truly, and thought is found only
1207  II,  12|        vehicles, e.g. what splits the trunk of a tree is not the sound
1208  II,  12|            destroyed by too violently twanging the strings of a lyre. This
1209 III,  2 |           forth as it is divisible it twice over uses the same dot at
1210 III,  4 |        straight: let us take it to be two-ness. It must be apprehended,
1211  II,  8 |                as it also does if the tympanic membrane is damaged, just
1212   I,  1 |            can be defined in a single unambiguous formula, as is the case
1213 III,  12|               long as it maintains an unbroken unity. That is why in the
1214 III,  12|                to those whose body is uncompounded or (2) to those which are
1215  II,  9 |             eye of hard-eyed animals, uncurtained, while in others which take
1216   I,  3 |              case, the "part" must be understood either in the~sense of a
1217   I,  3 |              the union must be for it undesirable.~Further, the cause of the
1218   I,  2 |             the dyad (because it goes undeviatingly from one point to another),
1219  II,  12|               objects themselves; for undoubtedly their temperature can be
1220  II,  10|              is drinkable and what is undrinkable both are tasteable, but
1221 III,  12|            forward movement would, if unendowed with sensation, perish and
1222  II,  2 |          proportional between the two unequal sides of the given rectangle
1223  II,  8 |               mass of air having been unified, bounded, and prevented
1224   I,  5 |              makes the soul one, this unifying agency would have the best
1225  II,  4 |              is eternal and divine by uninterrupted continuance (for nothing
1226   I,  1 |             to seek for would be this unique method. But if there is
1227   I,  5 |           appear, to the matter; what unites them, whatever it is, is
1228  II,  5 |               knowledge apprehends is universals, and these are in a sense
1229  II,  4 |              development and which is unmutilated, and whose mode of generation
1230   I,  3 |            must be a counter-movement unnatural to it, and conversely. The
1231  II,  1 |              we can wholly dismiss as unnecessary the question whether the
1232 III,  7 |            imperfect, activity in the unqualified sense, i.e. that of what
1233   I,  4 |           enumerated, by far the most unreasonable is that which declares the
1234  II,  11|          distance? The distinction is unsound; we perceive what is hard
1235   I,  5 |             many impossibilities. Its upholders assume that like is known
1236  II,  4 |            tendency of fire to travel upwards. For he misinterprets up
1237   I,  3 |        produce its movements. We must urge the question whether it
1238   I,  3 |           inferring.~It might also be urged that what is difficult and
1239   I,  1 |               hesitations still beset us-with what facts shall we begin
1240 III,  9 |             part different from those usually distinguished or already
1241  II,  8 |              expected that no animals utter voice except those which
1242  II,  8 |          nothing that is without soul utters voice, it being only by
1243  II,  8 |              what people mean by "the vacuum" is the air, which is what
1244 III,  12|          since Nature does nothing in vain. For all things that exist
1245  II,  10|               is "footless" or that a variety of fruit is "stoneless".
1246   I,  4 |             composite parts and those variously compounded; of what bodily
1247  II,  4 |            and success is possible in varying degrees; so it remains not
1248  II,  7 |          distinctly see an ant on the vault of the sky; that is an impossibility.
1249  II,  12|            the bodies which are their vehicles, e.g. what splits the trunk
1250  II,  9 |          owing to the dilating of the veins or pores. That explains
1251 III,  10|         appetite and mind (if one may venture to regard imagination as
1252  II,  12|             tone are destroyed by too violently twanging the strings of
1253 III,  1 |        perception of what is sweet by vision. That is so because we have
1254 III,  3 |             as we were saying before, visions appear to us even when our
1255   I,  5 |             Even if these points were waived and mind admitted to be
1256 III,  10|               either case, because of want of foresight into what is
1257 III,  1 |            our world, no sense can be wanting to such animals.~Further,
1258  II,  1 |             is, it is just an axe; it wants the character which is required
1259 III,  2 |               capable of being either warmed or chilled: the sense and
1260  II,  9 |            water-I add water, because water-animals too (both sanguineous and
1261  II,  11|            what water is to bodies in water-but the facts are not so evident
1262  II,  9 |           medium, i.e. through air or water-I add water, because water-animals
1263   I,  4 |              that it is the soul that weaves webs or builds houses. It
1264   I,  4 |               is the soul that weaves webs or builds houses. It is
1265  II,  9 |              men whose flesh is soft, wellendowed.~As flavours may be divided
1266  II,  7 |               extreme East to extreme West, the draught upon our powers
1267  II,  11|             one another in water have wet surfaces. The problem, then,
1268  II,  11|         between, viz. the water which wets their bounding surfaces;
1269 III,  10|              just as in the case of a wheel, so here there must be a
1270 III,  1 |     components of the organ of touch; wherefore it would remain that there
1271         | wherever
1272  II,  3 |              power of self-nutrition, while-in plants-the latter is found
1273  II,  8 |             sound-the movement of the whip must outrun the dispersion
1274  II,  8 |              in a stroke at a heap or whirl of sand as it was traveling
1275         | whoever
1276  II,  5 |             speak of sensation in the widest sense. Sensation depends,
1277   I,  1 |        shelter against destruction by wind, rain, and heat"; the physicist
1278   I,  2 |               of light coming through windows; the mixture of seeds of
1279   I,  5 |               being borne in upon the winds. Now this cannot take place
1280  II,  5 |             altered" when he uses his wisdom, just as it would be absurd
1281  II,  5 |             it is wrong to speak of a wise man as being "altered" when
1282  II,  5 |        exercise his knowledge when he wishes, but his sensation does
1283   I,  5 |             and further (b) desiring, wishing, and generally all other
1284 III,  3 |            what is present that man’s wit is increased", and again "
1285   I,  5 |              its broad-bosomed moulds~Won of clear Water two parts
1286   I,  1 |            higher dignity and greater wonderfulness in its objects, be more
1287   I,  3 |              Daedalus imparted to his wooden Aphrodite by saying that
1288  II,  4 |               way round, as timber is worked by a carpenter and not conversely;
1289  II,  4 |            change from not-working to working. In answering this problem
1290   I,  1 |             position to say something worth saying about the essential
1291   I,  2 |         movement.~of More superficial writers, some, e.g. Hippo, have
1292 III,  4 |     characters may be said to be on a writingtablet on which as yet nothing
1293 III,  4 |               nothing actually stands written: this is exactly what happens
1294 III,  3 |              knowledge, true opinion, wrongness in their opposites; for
1295 III,  3 |           which we find rightness and wrongness-rightness in prudence, knowledge,
1296 III,  1 |             belief that if a thing is yellow it is bile.~It might be
1297 III,  1 |             to the bitterness and the yellowness of bile, the assertion of
1298   I,  4 |               see just as well as the young man. The incapacity of old