The Works of Aristotle, Volume III (Biblia.com)

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It is impossible to overstate Aristotle’s importance in the development of Western thought. A student of Plato, Aristotle quickly distinguished himself from his teacher by rejecting the theory of forms—the belief that the characteristics of any physical thing (roundness, redness) exist apart from it in an abstract realm of forms. Aristotle taught that forms could not be properly understood apart...

The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassible, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible. Therefore, since everything is a possible object of thought, mind in order, as Anaxagoras says,3 to dominate, that is, to [20] know, must be pure from alladmixture; for the co-presence of what is alien to its nature is a

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