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In view of these facts we should naturally expect to find difficulty in
determining what place is, if indeed it is one of these two things, matter or
form. They demand a very close scrutiny, especially as it is not easy to
recognize them apart.
But it is at any rate not difficult to see that place cannot be either of them.
The form and the matter are not separate from the thing, whereas the place
can be separated. As we pointed out, where air was, water in turn comes to be,
the one replacing the other; and similarly with other bodies. Hence the place
of a thing is neither a part nor a state of it, but is separable from it. For place
is supposed to be something like a vessel-the vessel being a transportable
place. But the vessel is no part of the thing.
In so far then as it is separable from the thing, it is not the form: qua
containing, it is different from the matter.
Also it is held that what is anywhere is both itself something and that there
is a different thing outside it. (Plato of course, if we may digress, ought to tell
us why the form and the numbers are not in place, if ‘what participates’ is
place-whether what participates is the Great and the Small or the matter, as he
called it in writing in the Timaeus.)
Further, how could a body be carried to its own place, if place was the
matter or the form? It is impossible that what has no reference to motion or
the distinction of up and down can be place. So place must be looked for
among things which have these characteristics.
If the place is in the thing (it must be if it is either shape or matter) place
will have a place: for both the form and the indeterminate undergo change and
motion along with the thing, and are not always in the same place, but are
where the thing is. Hence the place will have a place.
Further, when water is produced from air, the place has been destroyed, for
the resulting body is not in the same place. What sort of destruction then is
that?
This concludes my statement of the reasons why space must be something,
and again of the difficulties that may be raised about its essential nature.
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- 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