By Themistius, Robert B. Todd
Themistius' remedy of Books 1-3 of Aristotle's Physics presents critical positive factors of Aristotle's considered rules, causation, switch and infinity. The culture of synthesising and epitomising exegesis is right here raised to a brand new point by means of the leading edge approach to paraphrase pioneered by means of Themistius. Taking selective, yet telling, account of the sooner Peripatetic and Presocratic culture, Themistius creates a framework that may nonetheless be profitably utilized in the examine of Aristotle. This publication could be of curiosity to all scholars of old and medieval philosophy, background and philosophy of science.
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This, for example,258 is how black and white are related to colour in this way, or sweet and bitter to flavours, given that by ‘opposition’ I mean the relation of two opposites. And so for the substance based in matter and capable of coming to be there is one opposition, and we are inquiring into its principles,259 and so what prevents us from saying that they are limited in number? Empedocles by supposing them limited in number260 certainly does a better job of producing the things that come to be than Anaxagoras.
But someone might also correctly apply ‘uneducated’ even if something is between educated and uneducated. , whiteness could sometimes cease to be after a person has been cauterized and could cease to be into blackness, but if it also turned out that the person involved was incidentally educated too, then whiteness will cease to be into educated too, and similarly if someone educated also ceased to be, then it would cease to be into someone uneducated, not into a black thing. 246 The account, after all, is the same, but with the second case it sometimes escapes notice that a standard name is frequently not assigned to opposite states, as it is to white and black.
158 They tried to offer a solution to them not by 30 Translation displacing the arguments themselves but by introducing other greater problems. 12,6 Xenocrates159 faced with unlimited sub-division introduced indivisible lines to escape saying that the same thing is both one and many, which he wrongly took as a contradiction, while he fell into another more intractable contradiction by making the same thing at the same time both a magnitude and not a magnitude. Yet to say that the same thing is both one and many is not to refer to opposites, if one were to distinguish between what is potential and