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what each such thing is and from their accidents, and as it is not therefore
necessary that there should be either a mobile separate from sensibles, or a
distinct mobile entity in the sensibles, so too in the case of mobiles there will
be propositions and sciences, which treat them however not qua mobile but
only qua bodies, or again only qua planes, or only qua lines, or qua divisibles,
or qua indivisibles having position, or only qua indivisibles. Thus since it is
true to say without qualification that not only things which are separable but
also things which are inseparable exist (for instance, that mobiles exist), it is
true also to say without qualification that the objects of mathematics exist,
and with the character ascribed to them by mathematicians. And as it is true to
say of the other sciences too, without qualification, that they deal with such
and such a subject-not with what is accidental to it (e.g. not with the pale, if
the healthy thing is pale, and the science has the healthy as its subject), but
with that which is the subject of each science-with the healthy if it treats its
object qua healthy, with man if qua man:-so too is it with geometry; if its
subjects happen to be sensible, though it does not treat them qua sensible, the
mathematical sciences will not for that reason be sciences of sensibles-nor, on
the other hand, of other things separate from sensibles. Many properties attach
to things in virtue of their own nature as possessed of each such character;
e.g. there are attributes peculiar to the animal qua female or qua male (yet
there is no ‘female’ nor ‘male’ separate from animals); so that there are also
attributes which belong to things merely as lengths or as planes. And in
proportion as we are dealing with things which are prior in definition and
simpler, our knowledge has more accuracy, i.e. simplicity. Therefore a science
which abstracts from spatial magnitude is more precise than one which takes
it into account; and a science is most precise if it abstracts from movement,
but if it takes account of movement, it is most precise if it deals with the
primary movement, for this is the simplest; and of this again uniform
movement is the simplest form.
The same account may be given of harmonics and optics; for neither
considers its objects qua sight or qua voice, but qua lines and numbers; but
the latter are attributes proper to the former. And mechanics too proceeds in
the same way. Therefore if we suppose attributes separated from their fellow
attributes and make any inquiry concerning them as such, we shall not for this
reason be in error, any more than when one draws a line on the ground and
calls it a foot long when it is not; for the error is not included in the premisses.
Each question will be best investigated in this way-by setting up by an act
of separation what is not separate, as the arithmetician and the geometer do.
For a man qua man is one indivisible thing; and the arithmetician supposed
one indivisible thing, and then considered whether any attribute belongs to a
man qua indivisible. But the geometer treats him neither qua man nor qua
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The Complete Aristotle
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- The Complete Aristotle
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- ~322 B.C.
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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