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The one placed body first in the order of beings , and made the faculty of thinking
depend thereupon , supposing that the principles of all things are corporeal : that
body most really or principally exists , and all other things in a secondary sense ...
The one placed body first in the order of beings , and made the faculty of thinking
depend thereupon , supposing that the principles of all things are corporeal : that
body most really or principally exists , and all other things in a secondary sense ...
Page 127
... truly and really exists : that bodies exist only in a secondary and dependent
sense : that the soul is the place of forms : that the sensible qualities are to be
regarded as acts only in the cause , and as pafsions in us : they accurately
confidered ...
... truly and really exists : that bodies exist only in a secondary and dependent
sense : that the soul is the place of forms : that the sensible qualities are to be
regarded as acts only in the cause , and as pafsions in us : they accurately
confidered ...
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cording to Aristotle , because a thing is , it must actually exist . This is evident from
the eighth book of his Metaphysics , where he animadverts on the Megaric
philosophers , as not admitting a . possible existence diftinét from the actual ;
from ...
cording to Aristotle , because a thing is , it must actually exist . This is evident from
the eighth book of his Metaphysics , where he animadverts on the Megaric
philosophers , as not admitting a . possible existence diftinét from the actual ;
from ...
Page 167
And in the Parmenides it is said , roer doch not exist ; which might seem to imply
a negation of the divine being . The truth is , Zeno and Parmenides argued , that
a thing existing in time was older and younger than it self ; therefore the ...
And in the Parmenides it is said , roer doch not exist ; which might seem to imply
a negation of the divine being . The truth is , Zeno and Parmenides argued , that
a thing existing in time was older and younger than it self ; therefore the ...
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In either sense there is no atheism , so long as mind is admitted to preside and
direct the animal ; and so long as the unum or To v is supposed not to exist
without mind ( a ) . So I , that neither Heraclitys nor Parmenides , nor Pythagoras ,
nor ...
In either sense there is no atheism , so long as mind is admitted to preside and
direct the animal ; and so long as the unum or To v is supposed not to exist
without mind ( a ) . So I , that neither Heraclitys nor Parmenides , nor Pythagoras ,
nor ...
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