The Metaphysics of AristotleG. Bell and Sons, 1896 - 445 pages |
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... least injudicious ; but it becomes a very serious error , fraught with hurtful consequences , to the student of such an author as Aristotle , who seldom uses a word devoid of emphasis , and who seems designedly to have sacrificed all ...
... least injudicious ; but it becomes a very serious error , fraught with hurtful consequences , to the student of such an author as Aristotle , who seldom uses a word devoid of emphasis , and who seems designedly to have sacrificed all ...
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... least , the Metaphysics have almost since the Middle Ages been buried in obscurity , and , with a few brilliant exceptions in Germany , have been quite forgotten . This neglect has been growing greater and greater from the time of ...
... least , the Metaphysics have almost since the Middle Ages been buried in obscurity , and , with a few brilliant exceptions in Germany , have been quite forgotten . This neglect has been growing greater and greater from the time of ...
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... least , to those students of ordinary attainments , who , however willing to become acquainted with the Metaphysics , are deterred from the undertaking by as well the actual magnitude of the Treatise as the difficulties of the text ...
... least , to those students of ordinary attainments , who , however willing to become acquainted with the Metaphysics , are deterred from the undertaking by as well the actual magnitude of the Treatise as the difficulties of the text ...
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... least in the Ideal Theory , Plato does not make the forms as matter for objects cognisant by the senses , and , far from the efficient prin- ciple being discoverable therein , the forms he views as causes of immobility rather . And as ...
... least in the Ideal Theory , Plato does not make the forms as matter for objects cognisant by the senses , and , far from the efficient prin- ciple being discoverable therein , the forms he views as causes of immobility rather . And as ...
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... least the merit of being consistent with them- selves . Now , Empedocles fancies that he has discovered an adequate cause of this difference in his theory of Harmony and Discord , for he is for producing all things from the operation of ...
... least the merit of being consistent with them- selves . Now , Empedocles fancies that he has discovered an adequate cause of this difference in his theory of Harmony and Discord , for he is for producing all things from the operation of ...
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