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lling factor you arrive at what you are looking for presumably as the efficient motor! Soran --- En date de : Jeu 31.7.08, uncljoedoc@^$1 a écrit : De: uncljoedoc@^$2 Objet: [aristotle-met] efficient cause À: aristotle-met@^$3 Date: Jeudi 31 Juillet 2008

In the interests of discussing the metaphysics of Aristotle, I ask the following question: I am interested in the 'first cause' of 'modification' of species by means of natural selection. When a species is naturally modified in the sense of descent with

Hello again, Regarding my previous question I want to ask it again in view of the multiple occurrences of 'men' to avoid misunderstanding. I double asterixed the phrase I was asking about. I understand there is the men...de clause in and around what

Greetings, I am plodding slowly through some readings by Aristotle and I noticed in the Metaphysics where he wrote (last line of part VI Book 1) The philosophies described above were succeeded by the system of _Plato_ (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin

I have a question about 'haeccity' or this-ness from Aristotle's standpoint. It is said that what is called a substance most fully, primarily, and most of all is neither said of any subject or in any subject-for instance an individual man or horse. If I

Does anyone conclude from Book 2 of the Physics, the first few paragraphs, that in Greece at that time beds were made entirely of an artificial material? And how does a stone have a natural impulse? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

> > > > It does make Aristotle wrong, because he is making a clear pronouncement > > about another system above, not merely his own. His argument above is > > this: > > > > 1. If there were a void, then bodies of different weights would fall > > through

In a message dated 12/31/2005 11:47:59 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, aristotle-met@^$1 writes: It does make Aristotle wrong, because he is making a clear pronouncement about another system above, not merely his own. His argument above is this: 1. If there

In a message dated 12/30/2005 11:02:54 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, aristotle-met@^$1 writes: "We observe that bodies which have a preponderance in weight or lightness, if alike in other ways, travel faster over equal space intervals, and in the ratio

Dumb question: In my reading I found that Galileo is supposed to have refuted Aristotle by showing that objects of different weights actually fall at the same rate. Did Aristotle ever actually say or imply that objects of different weights fall at