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things, nor as end, nor does it move existents.
(5) Further, too, if it is itself an existent, where will it be? Zenoâs difficulty
demands an explanation: for if everything that exists has a place, place too
will have a place, and so on ad infinitum.
(6) Again, just as every body is in place, so, too, every place has a body in
it. What then shall we say about growing things? It follows from these
premisses that their place must grow with them, if their place is neither less
nor greater than they are.
By asking these questions, then, we must raise the whole problem about
place-not only as to what it is, but even whether there is such a thing.
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We may distinguish generally between predicating B of A because it (A) is
itself, and because it is something else; and particularly between place which
is common and in which all bodies are, and the special place occupied
primarily by each. I mean, for instance, that you are now in the heavens
because you are in the air and it is in the heavens; and you are in the air
because you are on the earth; and similarly on the earth because you are in
this place which contains no more than you.
Now if place is what primarily contains each body, it would be a limit, so
that the place would be the form or shape of each body by which the
magnitude or the matter of the magnitude is defined: for this is the limit of
each body.
If, then, we look at the question in this way the place of a thing is its form.
But, if we regard the place as the extension of the magnitude, it is the matter.
For this is different from the magnitude: it is what is contained and defined by
the form, as by a bounding plane. Matter or the indeterminate is of this nature;
when the boundary and attributes of a sphere are taken away, nothing but the
matter is left.
This is why Plato in the Timaeus says that matter and space are the same;
for the âparticipantâ and space are identical. (It is true, indeed, that the account
he gives there of the âparticipantâ is different from what he says in his so-
called âunwritten teachingâ. Nevertheless, he did identify place and space.) I
mention Plato because, while all hold place to be something, he alone tried to
say what it is.
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The Complete Aristotle
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156