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 1   I, 2 |    declaring air to be the first principle, others water. If (b) more
 2   I, 2 |        are inquiring whether the principle or element is one or many.~
 3   I, 2 |        way mentioned, there is a principle no longer, since a principle
 4   I, 2 |     principle no longer, since a principle must be the principle of
 5   I, 2 |          a principle must be the principle of some thing or things.~
 6   I, 5 |          complex follow the same principle, but the opposite state
 7   I, 5 |        for our illustration; the principle is obviously the same in
 8   I, 6 |      necessary to assume a third principle as a substratum may be added. (
 9   I, 6 |       thing. But what is a first principle ought not to be the predicate
10   I, 6 |        it were, there would be a principle of the supposed principle:
11   I, 6 |        principle of the supposed principle: for the subject is a principle,
12   I, 6 |  principle: for the subject is a principle, and prior presumably to
13   I, 6 |          and the one the passive principle, whereas some of the more
14   I, 7 |       existent.~This then is one principle (though not one or existent
15   I, 7 |       the way in which each is a principle, is clear.~So much then
16   I, 8 |       that we do not subvert the principle that everything either is
17   I, 9 |       determination of the first principle in respect of form, whether
18  II, 1 |         them has within itself a principle of motion and of stationariness (
19  II, 1 |  products of manual labour) that principle is in something else external
20  II, 1 |      have a nature" which have a principle of this kind. Each of them
21  II, 1 |       which have in themselves a principle of motion or change.~Another
22  II, 1 |         is art, then on the same principle the shape of man is his
23  II, 7 |       not physical, as it has no principle of motion in itself. Of
24  II, 8 |   through the corruption of some principle corresponding to what is
25  II, 8 |      originated from an internal principle, arrive at some completion:
26  II, 8 |        is not reached from every principle; nor any chance completion,
27 III, 1 |    NATURE has been defined as a "principle of motion and change", and
28 III, 4 |      indeed, to a man, make it a principle of things.~(1) Some, as
29 III, 4 |       Plato, make the infinite a principle in the sense of a self-subsistent
30 III, 4 |          that they all make it a principle or source. We cannot say
31 III, 4 |       ascribe to it is that of a principle. Everything is either a
32 III, 4 |           as we say, there is no principle of this, but it is this
33 III, 4 |          which is held to be the principle of other things, and to
34 III, 5 |        thing and a substance and principle. For any part of it that
35 III, 5 |   supposed to be a substance and principle.) Therefore the infinite
36 III, 5 |          said, be described as a principle, but rather that of which
37   V, 4 |        difficulty removed by the principle already laid down that if
38  VI, 9 |          argument is the same in principle as that which depends on
39  VI, 10|   something indivisible-the same principle is involved.~Our next point
40 VIII, 1|       investigation of the First Principle.~Let us take our start from
41 VIII, 1|       this must be regarded as a principle, as would seem to be the
42 VIII, 1|      Anaxagoras, assert a single principle (of motion) would hold this
43 VIII, 1|        we have an adequate first principle in virtue of the fact that
44 VIII, 1|          fit to seek for a first principle to explain this "always":
45 VIII, 4|       contains the corresponding principle in itself and not accidentally (
46 VIII, 5|        does not contain a motive principle, and also of that which
47 VIII, 5|   unmixed, since he makes it the principle of motion: for it could
48 VIII, 5| something else, is the cause and principle of motion, every one would
49 VIII, 5|        is moved is nearer to the principle of motion than that which
50 VIII, 6|        being eternal will be the principle of motion to everything
51 VIII, 6|          position that the first principle that directly causes things
52 VIII, 6|      moves itself, and the first principle of the whole series is the
53 VIII, 6|       move themselves, the first principle of this motion being thus
54 VIII, 6|         limits: for if the first principle is permanent, the universe
55 VIII, 6|        continuous with the first principle. (We must distinguish, however,
56 VIII, 7|        and proceeding to a first principle: and so what is posterior
57 VIII, 7|          declare to be the first principle of things that are moved
58 VIII, 9|       motion have as their first principle "that which moves itself":
59 VIII, 9|      explained what is the first principle of this eternal motion: