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1 I, 2 | Now to investigate whether Being is one and motionless is
2 I, 2 | principles of his science-this being a question for a different
3 I, 2 | their existence. For if Being is just one, and one in
4 I, 2 | inquire therefore whether Being is one in this sense would
5 I, 2 | or such a thesis as that Being is one man) or like refuting
6 I, 2 | independently of each other or not, Being will be many.~If on the
7 I, 2 | Now Melissus says that Being is infinite. It is then
8 I, 2 | substance or quality. If then Being is both substance and quantity,
9 I, 2 | one" itself, no less than "being", is used in many senses,
10 I, 2 | be many-as if "one" and "being" were always used in one
11 I, 2 | difficulty about the same thing being both one and many, provided
12 I, 3 | assumption "what has come into being always has a beginning"
13 I, 3 | what has not come into being has no beginning". Then
14 I, 3 | Again, does it follow that Being, if one, is motionless?
15 I, 3 | impossible? But, further, Being cannot be one in form, though
16 I, 3 | view: the answer to him being that "this is not true"
17 I, 3 | to assume not only that "being" has the same meaning, of
18 I, 3 | that the subject to which "being" is attributed will not
19 I, 3 | something different from "being". Something, therefore,
20 I, 3 | the subject cannot be a being, unless "being" means several
21 I, 3 | cannot be a being, unless "being" means several things, in
22 I, 3 | something. But ex hypothesi "being" means only one thing.~If,
23 I, 3 | latter is different (for being cannot even be attributed
24 I, 3 | substance, it follows that "being" has more than one meaning.~
25 I, 3 | meaning.~In particular, then, Being will not have magnitude,
26 I, 3 | that all things are one if being means one thing, they conceded
27 I, 3 | obviously it is not true that if being means one thing, and cannot
28 I, 3 | there is nothing besides Being itself, is absurd. For who
29 I, 3 | absurd. For who understands "being itself" to be anything but
30 I, 3 | nothing to prevent there being many beings, as has been
31 I, 3 | clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.~
32 I, 4 | that nothing comes into being from not-being. For this
33 I, 4 | together" and the coming into being of such and such a kind
34 I, 4 | everything that comes into being must arise either from what
35 I, 4 | namely that things come into being out of existent things,
36 I, 4 | another and do not come into being but are constituents which
37 I, 5 | exist, be says, the one as being, the other as not-being.
38 I, 5 | shapelessness-each of these objects being partly order and partly
39 I, 5 | columns, some of the pairs being wider, others narrower in
40 I, 6 | innumerable, because, if so, Being will not be knowable: and
41 I, 6 | hand, the contrarieties, being two, can generate from each
42 I, 6 | substance is a single genus of being, so that the principles
43 I, 6 | other contrarieties in it being held to be reducible to
44 I, 7 | so-and-so", but also "from being this, comes to be so-and-so",
45 I, 7 | be so-and-so", as "from being not-musical comes to be
46 I, 7 | we do not say (1) "from being a man he came to be musical"
47 I, 8 | things, maintaining that only Being itself is. Such then was
48 I, 8 | or becomes something from being a doctor." These expressions
49 I, 8 | too, clearly, may "from being", and "being acts or is
50 I, 8 | may "from being", and "being acts or is acted on". A
51 I, 8 | or becomes something from being a doctor, if he does, undergoes,
52 I, 8 | be or exists apart from Being itself, thus doing away
53 I, 8 | nothing comes to be from being, and that being does not
54 I, 8 | be from being, and that being does not come to be except
55 I, 8 | not be from animal: and if being, not from being-nor from
56 I, 8 | explained that by "from not being" we mean from not-being
57 I, 9 | without qualification from not being, accepting on this point
58 I, 9 | and Small alike with not being, and that whether they are
59 II, 1 | is a source or cause of being moved and of being at rest
60 II, 1 | cause of being moved and of being at rest in that to which
61 II, 1 | whole of substance, all else being its affections, states,
62 II, 1 | other things to come into being and cease to be times without
63 II, 1 | speak of a thing’s nature as being exhibited in the process
64 II, 2 | art which is directive as being concerned with production
65 II, 3 | in the same way, the one being the material cause, the
66 II, 3 | cause of a statue, because "being Polyclitus" and "sculptor"
67 II, 3 | e.g. the cause of a house being built is either "house-builder"
68 II, 3 | things which are actually being effected.~This must suffice
69 II, 4 | or something of the kind being the cause of them (for it
70 II, 4 | to human intelligence, as being a divine thing and full
71 II, 6 | further characteristics of being the objects of deliberate
72 II, 7 | of things that come into being, we are looking for the
73 II, 7 | number.~Now, the causes being four, it is the business
74 II, 7 | which cause movement by being themselves moved; and such
75 II, 7 | motion in themselves, but being themselves incapable of
76 II, 7 | whatever causes movement, not being itself moved, such as (1)
77 II, 8 | descend, the result of this being that the corn grows. Similarly
78 II, 8 | end, such things survived, being organized spontaneously
79 II, 8 | seed must have come into being first, and not straightway
80 II, 9 | wood at the top of all as being the lightest. Whereas, though
81 II, 9 | the operation of sawing as being a certain kind of dividing,
82 III, 1 | and also in fulfilment-one being a "this", another "so much",
83 III, 1 | modes of the predication of being.~Further, the word "relative"
84 III, 1 | in the various classes of being between what is full real
85 III, 1 | that, is fully real, it is being built, and this is building.
86 III, 1 | causing alteration and of being altered. Hence, too, what
87 III, 1 | it is itself incapable of being moved.~It is the fulfilment
88 III, 1 | be no difference between being ill and being well. Yet
89 III, 1 | difference between being ill and being well. Yet the subject both
90 III, 1 | this kind is capable of being at one time actual, at another
91 III, 1 | is the buildable which is being built. The process then
92 III, 1 | built. The process then of being built must be the kind of
93 III, 2 | or "inequality" or "not being"; but such things are not
94 III, 2 | the reason for this view being that the potential whose
95 III, 2 | the cause of the attribute being contact with what can move
96 III, 4 | 1) What is incapable of being gone through, because it
97 III, 4 | invisible").~(2) What admits of being gone through, the process
98 III, 4 | what scarcely admits of being gone through.~(3) What naturally
99 III, 4 | What naturally admits of being gone through, but is not
100 III, 5 | either immovable or always being carried along. Yet neither
101 III, 5 | itself is the cause of its being fixed. This because it is
102 III, 5 | means these-so a thing’s being in place means that it is
103 III, 6 | existence: one thing is always being taken after another, and
104 III, 6 | always different. Again, "being" has more than one sense,
105 III, 6 | as existing things whose being has not come to them like
106 III, 6 | proportion we see addition being made to what is already
107 III, 6 | what we have described as being in a sense the same as the
108 III, 6 | it has the attribute of being actually infinite, as the
109 III, 7 | privation, the subject as such being what is continuous and sensible.
110 III, 8 | to be of another, the All being limited.~(2) There is a
111 III, 8 | difference between touching and being limited. The former is relative
112 IV, 1 | carried-the implication being that these places do not
113 IV, 1 | all things came chaos to being, then broad-breasted earth,"
114 IV, 2 | like a vessel-the vessel being a transportable place. But
115 IV, 3 | be in itself-everything being either nowhere or in something
116 IV, 3 | whole will be described as being in itself. For a thing is
117 IV, 3 | in the sense at least of being "in" the man), that the
118 IV, 3 | wine in virtue not of its being wine but of the wine’s being
119 IV, 3 | being wine but of the wine’s being wine, and the wine will
120 IV, 3 | jar in virtue not of its being a jar but of the jar’s being
121 IV, 3 | being a jar but of the jar’s being a jar. Now that they are
122 IV, 3 | prevent the first place from being "in" something else-not
123 IV, 4 | own nature is capable of being moved, e.g. the parts of
124 IV, 4 | not in itself capable of being moved, but is always moved
125 IV, 4 | a vessel)-the assumption being that the extension is something
126 IV, 4 | are naturally capable of being in contact with the container
127 IV, 5 | somewhere, not in the sense of being in a place, but as the limit
128 IV, 7 | is no necessity for there being a void if there is movement.
129 IV, 8 | the void must exist, as being necessary if there is to
130 IV, 8 | non-existent and a privation of being), but natural locomotion
131 IV, 8 | or because, other things being equal, the moving body differs
132 IV, 9 | carries things up as skins by being carried up themselves carry
133 IV, 9 | from the contraries but its being is different, and that a
134 IV, 9 | the same way, the change being sometimes from smallness
135 IV, 9 | or becomes greater from being smaller, it is the matter
136 IV, 9 | matter becomes hot from being cold, and cold from being
137 IV, 9 | being cold, and cold from being hot, because it was potentially
138 IV, 10 | coincidence in time (i.e. being neither prior nor posterior)
139 IV, 10 | not defined by time, by being either a certain amount
140 IV, 11 | it is dark and we are not being affected through the body,
141 IV, 11 | which is just what its being was supposed to mean), but
142 IV, 11 | sophists assume that Coriscus’ being in the Lyceum is a different
143 IV, 11 | different thing from Coriscus’ being in the market-place. And
144 IV, 12 | measure of motion and of being moved, and it measures the
145 IV, 12 | essence, and this is what being in time means for it, that
146 IV, 12 | also, namely, that their being should be measured by time. "
147 IV, 12 | contained time, nor is their being measured by time. A proof
148 IV, 12 | the thing, and that its being is measured by the number
149 IV, 13 | time all things come into being and pass away; for which
150 IV, 13 | rather than of coming into being (for change, in itself,
151 IV, 13 | incidentally of coming into being, and of being. A sufficient
152 IV, 13 | coming into being, and of being. A sufficient evidence of
153 IV, 13 | that nothing comes into being without itself moving somehow
154 IV, 13 | chiefly mean by a thing’s being destroyed by time. Still,
155 IV, 14 | For things both come into being in time and pass away, and
156 IV, 14 | as motion by time (this being so because by a motion definite
157 IV, 14 | increase nor coming into being can be regular, but locomotion
158 IV, 14 | movement and coming into being and passing away. This is
159 IV, 14 | the things that come into being form a circle is to say
160 V, 1 | walks, that which walks being something in which aptitude
161 V, 1 | to it, but in virtue of being itself directly in motion.
162 V, 1 | according as it is capable of being restored to health or capable
163 V, 1 | to health or capable of being heated. And there are the
164 V, 1 | which is directly in motion being distinct from that to which
165 V, 1 | which it proceeds. This being so, it is clear that the
166 V, 1 | which perishes changes from being: and "becoming" is change
167 V, 1 | becoming" is change to being, though it is also change
168 V, 1 | object of thought, the colour being only accidentally the object
169 V, 1 | to subject, the relation being that of contradiction, is
170 V, 1 | unqualified not-being to being is coming to be in an unqualified
171 V, 1 | when the change is from being to not-being, "particular
172 V, 1 | negation, the distinction being the same as that made in
173 V, 1 | not to be in motion. This being so, it follows that "becoming"
174 V, 1 | severally distinguished as Being, Quality, Place, Time, Relation,
175 V, 2 | change to another mode of being, as e.g. a man changes from
176 V, 2 | as e.g. when a man who is being restored to health runs
177 V, 2 | motion can belong neither to Being nor to Relation nor to Agent
178 V, 2 | on or to be incapable of being acted on. Motion in respect
179 V, 2 | absolutely incapable of being moved (just as we correspondingly
180 V, 2 | of which I use the term "being at rest": for rest is contrary
181 V, 3 | something of a different kind being between). For that which
182 V, 3 | together" without necessarily being one: but they cannot be
183 V, 3 | they cannot be one without being necessarily together. So
184 V, 4 | specifically when besides being one generically it also
185 V, 4 | example of this, knowledge being on the one hand a species
186 V, 4 | might be a case of two men being restored to health at the
187 V, 4 | to be again to come into being and remain numerically the
188 V, 4 | successive in virtue of the time being continuous, but there can
189 V, 4 | of the motions themselves being continuous, that is when
190 V, 4 | is regular, the irregular being as such divisible. But the
191 V, 4 | therefore, while in virtue of being continuous it is one, is
192 V, 5 | contrariety of motions, the latter being the loss, the former the
193 V, 5 | differs from motion (motion being change from a particular
194 V, 5 | having contrary goals, and being taught as contrary to being
195 V, 5 | being taught as contrary to being led into error by another,
196 V, 5 | into error by another, it being possible to acquire error,
197 V, 6 | rest, the coming to rest being found to come into being
198 V, 6 | being found to come into being simultaneously with the
199 V, 6 | thing, e.g. change from being and change to being), but
200 V, 6 | from being and change to being), but no motion. So, too,
201 V, 6 | absence of change in its being will be contrary to absence
202 V, 6 | absence of change in a thing’s being? and is this absence of
203 V, 6 | motion and rest below, these being instances of local contrariety;
204 V, 6 | during the time that it was being carried violently upward
205 V, 6 | appears to have that which is being discarded, so that if a
206 V, 6 | thus we shall have a thing being in a non-permanent state
207 V, 6 | upward motion of fire as being natural is contrary to the
208 V, 6 | downward motion of fire as being unnatural. The same is true
209 VI, 1 | as defined above things being "continuous" if their extremities
210 VI, 1 | composed of points, the line being continuous and the point
211 VI, 1 | which it is the extremity being distinct).~Moreover, if
212 VI, 1 | actually passed through A after being in process of passing through,
213 VI, 1 | completed a motion without being in motion: for on this assumption
214 VI, 2 | which A has arrived at D, B being the slower has arrived,
215 VI, 2 | LX: so that, the time PRh being less than the time PCh in
216 VI, 2 | occupy any time: and this being so, it necessarily follows
217 VI, 2 | the limit in one direction being given. The same reasoning
218 VI, 3 | past (no part of the future being on this side of it) and
219 VI, 3 | future (no part of the past being on the other side of it):
220 VI, 3 | traversed the distance AB. That being so, the slower will in the
221 VI, 3 | motion or at rest: this being so, the assumption that
222 VI, 4 | and a motion of BG. That being so, let DE be the motion
223 VI, 4 | else (for, the whole motion being the motion of a whole, the
224 VI, 4 | same motion), the argument being the same as that whereby
225 VI, 4 | in the matter of their being finite or infinite, they
226 VI, 5 | One kind of change, then, being change in a relation of
227 VI, 5 | changed from not-being to being it has left not-being. Therefore
228 VI, 5 | Therefore it will be in being: for everything must either
229 VI, 6 | in a particular day. That being so, that which changes must
230 VI, 7 | finite time, the reason being the same as that given above:
231 VI, 8 | from itself, the argument being the same as that which we
232 VI, 8 | coming to a stand, there being no primary stage either
233 VI, 8 | primary stage either of being in motion or of coming to
234 VI, 8 | primary time at which the being at rest of that which is
235 VI, 8 | our use of the phrase "being at rest" also implies that
236 VI, 8 | point only but two at least being thus needed to determine
237 VI, 8 | circumstances that we use the term "being at rest"-when at one moment
238 VI, 8 | same space. So if this is being at rest it is impossible
239 VI, 9 | rows of bodies, each row being composed of an equal number
240 VI, 9 | parts of it are so: not being in a certain condition is
241 VI, 9 | condition is different from not being wholly in that condition.
242 VI, 9 | So, too, in the case of being and not-being and all other
243 VI, 10 | changing, it is in AB. That being so, it will be at rest:
244 VI, 10 | or less than itself. That being so, it is evident that the
245 VI, 10 | is so divisible: the fact being that the only condition
246 VI, 10 | of the infinitely small being in motion in a moment: for
247 VI, 10 | may be, is the limit, e.g. being is the limit of coming to
248 VI, 10 | be cut, the term "cannot" being used in several senses)-
249 VI, 10 | should be in process of being cut, and generally that
250 VI, 10 | is nothing to prevent its being infinite in this sense;
251 VII, 1 | which is in motion without being moved by anything does not
252 VII, 1 | each member of the series being moved by that which comes
253 VII, 1 | motion and the moved is being moved simultaneously) it
254 VII, 1 | impossibility in many things being in motion simultaneously.
255 VII, 2 | assimilative, the assimilative being forms of pulling, the secretive
256 VII, 2 | carries it is in doing so being either pulled or pushed
257 VII, 2 | respectively to that which is being pushed and that which is
258 VII, 2 | pushed and that which is being pulled, it will be evident
259 VII, 2 | else to oneself without being in contact with it: it is
260 VII, 2 | altered in virtue of their being affected in respect of their
261 VII, 2 | inanimate is unconscious of being affected by alteration,
262 VII, 2 | prevent the animate also being unconscious of it when the
263 VII, 3 | of the bronze or the wax being dry or fluid or hard or
264 VII, 3 | fluid or hot substance as being bronze, giving the material
265 VII, 3 | the result of something’s being altered, the result, e.g.
266 VII, 3 | e.g. of the material’s being condensed or rarefied or
267 VII, 3 | relations, the excellences being perfections of nature and
268 VII, 3 | actually possessed of it not by being set in motion at all itself
269 VII, 3 | man’s becoming sober or being awakened. It is evident,
270 VII, 3 | argument that alteration and being altered occur in sensible
271 VII, 4 | that, recovery of health being an alteration, we have here
272 VII, 4 | number that constitutes being, we may indeed speak of
273 VII, 5 | does not follow that E, being half of A, will in the time
274 VII, 5 | increase at all, the case being the same as with the weight.~ ~
275 VIII, 1 | motion before which it had no being, and is it perishing again
276 VIII, 1 | periods of time-his account being as follows:~"Since One hath
277 VIII, 1 | be something capable of being burned before there can
278 VIII, 1 | there can be a process of being burned, and something capable
279 VIII, 1 | before which they had no being, or they must be eternal.
280 VIII, 1 | that which was capable of being moved or of causing motion
281 VIII, 1 | that these things were in being throughout all previous
282 VIII, 1 | previous time without there being any motion appears unreasonable
283 VIII, 1 | cause of its rest, rest being the privation of motion.
284 VIII, 1 | respectively of affecting and being affected, or of causing
285 VIII, 1 | or of causing motion and being moved, are capable of it
286 VIII, 1 | capable respectively of being moved and of causing motion,
287 VIII, 1 | be true of motion, time being a kind of affection of motion.)~
288 VIII, 1 | cessation of the process of being burned does not involve
289 VIII, 1 | cessation of the capacity of being burned, since a thing may
290 VIII, 1 | thing may be capable of being burned without being in
291 VIII, 1 | of being burned without being in process of being burned-nor,
292 VIII, 1 | without being in process of being burned-nor, when a thing
293 VIII, 1 | subsequent to the last,) for being destroyed also is a kind
294 VIII, 1 | essential function of the former being to unite, of the latter
295 VIII, 2 | becoming before which it had no being, these things ought to be
296 VIII, 2 | nothing to prevent there being a motion that is the same
297 VIII, 2 | is the same in virtue of being continuous and eternal:
298 VIII, 2 | the motion from without being at one time present, and
299 VIII, 3 | resembles that about the stone being worn away by the drop of
300 VIII, 3 | on the ground without our being able to perceive the fact.
301 VIII, 3 | thing can be at rest before being set in motion unnaturally.
302 VIII, 3 | as to be capable both of being in motion and of being at
303 VIII, 3 | of being in motion and of being at rest, or whether, while
304 VIII, 4 | character of the motion being abnormal. The fact that
305 VIII, 4 | and something capable of being correspondingly acted on,
306 VIII, 4 | the event of any such pair being in contact what is potential
307 VIII, 4 | consists in the light thing being in a certain situation,
308 VIII, 4 | contrary situation, it is being prevented from rising. The
309 VIII, 4 | and heaviness, the former being determined by an upward,
310 VIII, 5 | that is not so in virtue of being moved by something else.
311 VIII, 5 | of the immediate movent being of this kind there is no
312 VIII, 5 | moved to move it without being moved by that which imparts
313 VIII, 5 | anything is a movent while being itself moved, the series
314 VIII, 5 | moves something in virtue of being moved by the hand, the hand
315 VIII, 5 | is in motion, ether this being in motion is an accidental
316 VIII, 5 | them moves something while being itself in motion, but not
317 VIII, 5 | which has the capacity of being in motion, but does not
318 VIII, 5 | motion in this sense only by being itself unmoved, and have
319 VIII, 5 | supreme control only by being unmixed.~We will now take
320 VIII, 5 | he is also in process of being taught that same lesson
321 VIII, 5 | throwing he is in process of being thrown in just the same
322 VIII, 5 | increase is in process of being altered by something else,
323 VIII, 5 | teaching is in process of being taught: for it is clear
324 VIII, 5 | corresponding capacity for being moved: i.e. it will have
325 VIII, 5 | will have a capacity for being moved in the sense in which
326 VIII, 5 | has as such a capacity for being made healthy, and that which
327 VIII, 5 | has as such a capacity for being built. It will have the
328 VIII, 5 | will have the capacity for being thus moved either immediately
329 VIII, 5 | has as such a capacity for being moved by something else,
330 VIII, 5 | is so only in virtue of being itself dependent upon something
331 VIII, 5 | itself: for then, while being specifically one and indivisible,
332 VIII, 5 | time be both teaching and being taught (the same thing),
333 VIII, 5 | or both restoring to and being restored to the same health.
334 VIII, 5 | is more the cause of its being moved than that which comes
335 VIII, 5 | producing heat, therefore, being heated. But as a matter
336 VIII, 5 | virtue of some part of it being moved by that part itself,
337 VIII, 5 | therefore, their self-motion not being necessary, we may take the
338 VIII, 5 | take the case of their not being moved by themselves. Therefore
339 VIII, 5 | imparts motion without itself being moved and that which is
340 VIII, 5 | A imparting motion and B being moved, whereas G will not
341 VIII, 5 | imparts motion only through being moved by something else,
342 VIII, 5 | something else, not through being moved by any part of itself.
343 VIII, 5 | through some part of the whole being of such a nature as to be
344 VIII, 5 | itself as a whole, both being moved and imparting motion
345 VIII, 5 | them, that which is moved, being divisible though actually
346 VIII, 5 | that in all cases of things being in motion that which primarily
347 VIII, 6 | by others that come into being, and though one thing that
348 VIII, 6 | other things. Motion, then, being eternal, the first movent,
349 VIII, 6 | of unmoved things, which being eternal will be the principle
350 VIII, 6 | must always be motion. That being so, motion must also be
351 VIII, 6 | in the event of a thing’s being moved now by one thing and
352 VIII, 6 | and have the capacity of being sometimes in motion and
353 VIII, 6 | class of living things. This being so, then, the view was suggested
354 VIII, 6 | nourishment: when it is being digested animals sleep,
355 VIII, 6 | animals sleep, and when it is being distributed through the
356 VIII, 6 | principle of this motion being thus originally derived
357 VIII, 6 | that moves them, itself being in motion and changing as
358 VIII, 6 | something else, the former being confined to perishable things,
359 VIII, 6 | that instead of all things being either in motion or at rest,
360 VIII, 6 | at rest, or some things being always in motion and the
361 VIII, 7 | become and perish: and in being combined and separated things
362 VIII, 7 | that become, without itself being in process of becoming,
363 VIII, 7 | not itself becoming but being, and before this there must
364 VIII, 7 | it in the course of their being perfected. Therefore, if
365 VIII, 7 | not involve a change of being in the sense in which there
366 VIII, 7 | prevents the change from being continuous: so, too, in
367 VIII, 7 | impossibility of the two processes being present to a thing at the
368 VIII, 8 | motion to the right, these being the pairs of contraries
369 VIII, 8 | passing, its passage not being contained within any period
370 VIII, 8 | questioner (the question asked being whether it is possible in
371 VIII, 8 | is theoretically not so, being the finishing-point of the
372 VIII, 8 | time ABG and a thing D, D being white in the time A and
373 VIII, 8 | can be, no reason for its being so at any particular stage
374 VIII, 8 | motion, the state of rest being privation of motion; then,
375 VIII, 8 | nothing to prevent the motion being continuous and free from
376 VIII, 9 | a motion that admits of being eternal is prior to one
377 VIII, 9 | only motion that admits of being regular. In rectilinear
378 VIII, 9 | elsewhere.~As to locomotion being the primary motion, this
379 VIII, 10| call this time ZH. That being so, by continually taking
380 VIII, 10| the air, and that this in being moved is also a movent,
381 VIII, 10| it has moved capable of being a movent. Therefore, while
382 VIII, 10| movent gives the power of being a movent either to air or
383 VIII, 10| are things that admit of being sometimes in motion and
384 VIII, 10| successive or in contact, there being not one movent but a number
385 VIII, 10| process of change and in being so will also have to be
386 VIII, 10| since the air or the water, being divisible, is a movent only
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