The Metaphysics of Aristotle: Translated from the Greek with Copious Notes in which the Pythagoric and Platonic Dogmas Respecting Numbers and Ideas are Unfolded from Antient Sources ; to which is Added a Dissertation on Nullities and Diverging Series, in which the Conclusions of the Greatest Modern Mathematicians on this Subject are Shown to be Erroneous, the Nature of Infinitely Small Quantities is Explained, and the to 'en, Or The One of the Pythagor©Œans and Platonists, So Often Alluded to by Aristotle in this Work, is Elucidatedauthor, and sold, 1801 - 467 páginas |
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... itself does not make itself change . I say , for instance , that neither wood nor brafs is the caufe that either of these is changed . Nor does wood make the bed , nor brass the statue , but something elfe , which is the caufe of ...
... itself does not make itself change . I say , for instance , that neither wood nor brafs is the caufe that either of these is changed . Nor does wood make the bed , nor brass the statue , but something elfe , which is the caufe of ...
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... itself by itself . For if it were not by itfelf , but were mingled with fomething else , it would participate of all things ( for in every thing there is a portion of every thing , as I have before observed ) ; and things mingled ...
... itself by itself . For if it were not by itfelf , but were mingled with fomething else , it would participate of all things ( for in every thing there is a portion of every thing , as I have before observed ) ; and things mingled ...
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... itself , and the one itself , are the effence of these things of which they are predicated and hence they afferted that number is the effence of all things . After this manner , therefore , they unfolded their opinion respecting these ...
... itself , and the one itself , are the effence of these things of which they are predicated and hence they afferted that number is the effence of all things . After this manner , therefore , they unfolded their opinion respecting these ...
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... itself , if any one allows all things . Nor yet this , unless he admits that there is an universal genus . But this in certain things is impoffible . Nor is there any reason in those things which are pofterior to numbers , viz . lengths ...
... itself , if any one allows all things . Nor yet this , unless he admits that there is an universal genus . But this in certain things is impoffible . Nor is there any reason in those things which are pofterior to numbers , viz . lengths ...
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... itself . The answer to the fecond inquiry is more manifeft . For , if we confider genera and species : as things of posterior origin , i . e . as merely subsisting in the phantasy by an abstraction from fenfibles ; thofe genera which ...
... itself . The answer to the fecond inquiry is more manifeft . For , if we confider genera and species : as things of posterior origin , i . e . as merely subsisting in the phantasy by an abstraction from fenfibles ; thofe genera which ...
Términos y frases comunes
according to accident affert affumed alfo alſo animal antient Ariftotle becauſe befides biped body cafe called capacity caufe cauſe compofed compofite confequence confidered confifts contraries converfant corruptible definition demonftration denominated dianoëtic divifion divine duad effence effentially elſe Empedocles energy eſpecially eternal evident faid falfe fame manner fame thing fenfe fenfibles feparate fhort fignifies fimilar manner fimply fince firft firſt fome fomething foul fpecies fpeculation fubfift fubject fuch things fuperficies Further ftill genera genus Hence himſelf ideas impoffible indivifible infinite inftance inherent intellect inveſtigate itſelf kind likewife magnitude mathematical matter meaſure monad moſt motion muft multitude muſician muſt nature neceffarily neceffary non-being obferved paffions Parmenides participated particular philofophers phyfical Plato poffefs poffible pofterior predicated prefent principles prior Pythagoreans quantity reaſons refpect requifite ſaid ſame ſay ſcience ſeparate ſhould ſome ſpeak ſphere ſubſiſt ſuch Syrianus thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe unity univerfal unleſs
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Página 153 - Refts and expatiates in a life to come. Lo ! the poor Indian, whofe untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind...
Página 3 - The Metaphysics of Aristotle, translated from the Greek ; with copious notes, in which the Pythagoric and Platonic Dogmas respecting numbers and ideas are unfolded from ancient sources.
Página 153 - Science never taught to ftray Far as the folar walk, or milky way; Yet fimple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill...
Página 258 - ... Hence she is represented guiding a rudder, because she governs things sailing on the sea of generation. Her rudder too is fixed on a globe, because she directs that which is unstable in generation. In her other hand, she holds the horn of Amalthea, which is full of fruits, because she is the cause of obtaining all divine fruits. And on this account, we venerate the fortunes of cities and houses, and of each individual ; because being very remote from divine union, we are in danger of being deprived...
Página 293 - Gods, one and all things, and yet one prior to all. No objections of any weight, no arguments but such as are sophistical, can be urged against this most sublime theory which is so congenial to the unperverted conceptions of the human mind, that it can only be treated with ridicule and contempt in degraded, barren, and barbarous ages.
Página 258 - The passage respecting those that were left to guard the walls of Troy is in Iliad 8, ver. 518, &c. And the last passage is in Iliad 14, ver. 378, &c. Page 391. Fortune."] Fortune is that divine power which disposes things differing from each other, and happening contrary to expectation, to beneficent purposes.
Página 294 - ... apparent natures is not known by him in an unstable, but in a definite manner ; nor does he know that which is subject to all-various mutations dubiously, but in a manner perpetually the same ; for by knowing himself, he knows every thing of which he is the cause, possessing a knowledge transcendently more accurate than that which is co-ordinate to the objects of knowledge; since a causal knowledge of every thing is superior to every other kind of knowledge.
Página 425 - ... though in vain. In the third class is the race of divine men, who through a more excellent power, and with piercing eyes, acutely perceive supernal light, to the vision of which they raise themselves above the clouds and darkness as it were of this lower world, and there abiding despise every thing in these regions of sense ; being no otherwise delighted with the place which is truly and properly their own, than he who after many wanderings...
Página 431 - ... highest God is seen afar off as it were obscurely ; and if you approach nearer, he is beheld still more obscurely ; and lastly, he takes away the ability of perceiving other objects. He is, therefore, truly an incomprehensible and inaccessible light, and is profoundly compared to the sun : upon which the more attentively you look, the more you will be darkened and blinded ; and will only bring back with you eyes stupefied with excess of light.