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Page xvii
... speculators works of that we have any account of , and , in fact , the founder Thales . of this description of philosophy . Now , this Thaletian philosophy is decidedly materialistic , so far forth as its author endeavoured to fix on ...
... speculators works of that we have any account of , and , in fact , the founder Thales . of this description of philosophy . Now , this Thaletian philosophy is decidedly materialistic , so far forth as its author endeavoured to fix on ...
Page xix
... speculators began to be attracted towards a consideration of the formal principle of things — the οὐσία καὶ τό τι ἦν εἶναι — another cause taken from the fourfold classification already assumed . schools of Platc amined into . chap . v ...
... speculators began to be attracted towards a consideration of the formal principle of things — the οὐσία καὶ τό τι ἦν εἶναι — another cause taken from the fourfold classification already assumed . schools of Platc amined into . chap . v ...
Page xxi
... speculators not merely putting forward this principle , but along with it a different one , namely , such a one as would account for the origin of motion ; and this efficient principle with some was considered as single , and with ...
... speculators not merely putting forward this principle , but along with it a different one , namely , such a one as would account for the origin of motion ; and this efficient principle with some was considered as single , and with ...
Page xxiii
... speculators of such principles into their systems as Harmony , Discord , Soul , and Mind . Still less notice has been vouchsafed to the formal cause , and the only traces of it are to be found in the Pythagoric system of numbers , and ...
... speculators of such principles into their systems as Harmony , Discord , Soul , and Mind . Still less notice has been vouchsafed to the formal cause , and the only traces of it are to be found in the Pythagoric system of numbers , and ...
Page xxv
... speculators , with all their ingenuity , could not fix on any other species of cause which would not fall under the category of one or other of these ; and no argument lies against this , from the obscurity or imperfection of the early ...
... speculators , with all their ingenuity , could not fix on any other species of cause which would not fall under the category of one or other of these ; and no argument lies against this , from the obscurity or imperfection of the early ...
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