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    Aristotle, Metaphysics

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    [1093b][1]  kai hoti ison to diastêma en te tois grammasin apo tou A pros to Ô, kai apo tou bombukos epi tên oxutatên [neatên] en aulois, hês ho arithmos isos têi oulomeleiai tou ouranou. [5] horan de dei mê toiauta outheis an aporêseien oute legein outh' heuriskein en tois aïdiois, epei kai en tois phthartois. all' hai en tois arithmois phuseis hai epainoumenai kai ta toutois enantia kai holôs ta en tois mathêmasin, hôs men legousi tines kai aitia poiousi tês phuseôs, eoiken houtôsi [10] ge skopoumenois diapheugein kat' oudena gar tropon tôn diôrismenôn peri tas archas ouden autôn aition: estin hôs mentoi poiousi phaneron hoti to eu huparchei kai tês sustoichias esti tês tou kalou to peritton, to euthu, to isakis ison, hai dunameis eniôn arithmôn: hama gar hôrai kai arithmos toiosdi: [15] kai ta alla dê hosa sunagousin ek tôn mathêmatikôn theôrêmatôn panta tautên echei tên dunamin. dio kai eoike sumptômasin: esti gar sumbebêkota men, all' oikeia allêlois panta, hen de tôi analogon: en hekastêi gar tou ontos katêgoriai esti to analogon, hôs euthu en mêkei houtôs [20] en platei to homalon, isôs en arithmôi to peritton, en de chroiai to leukon.

    eti ouch hoi en tois eidesin arithmoi aitioi tôn harmonikôn kai tôn toioutôn diapherousi gar ekeinoi allêlôn hoi isoi eidei: kai gar hai monades: hôste dia ge tauta eidê ou poiêteon. ta men oun sumbainonta tauta [25] te kan eti pleiô sunachtheiê: eoike de tekmêrion einai to polla kakopathein peri tên genesin autôn kai mêdena tropon dunasthai suneirai tou mê chôrista einai ta mathêmatika tôn aisthêtôn, hôs enioi legousi, mêde tautas einai tas archas.

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    Aristotle. Aristotle's Metaphysics, ed. W.D. Ross. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1924.
    OCLC: 7358999


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