The Works of Aristotle, Volume VIII (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...

magnitudes from similar principles. The criticism of ideal numbers summed up. The upholders of Ideas make them at once universal and individual. 10. Are the first principles of substances individual or universal? Ν 1. The principles cannot be contraries. The Platonists in making them contraries treated one of the contraries as matter. Various forms of this theory. The nature of unity and plurality expounded. 2. Eternal substances cannot be compounded out of elements. The object of the Platonists

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