nce. And evidently the same is true of points and lines and planes; for the same argument applies, since they are all alike either limits or divisions.
Book III Chapter 6
In general one might raise the question why after all, besides perceptible things and the intermediates, we have to look for another class of things, Converse Winter All Star i.e. the Forms which we posit. If it is for this reason, because the objects of mathematics, while they differ from the things in this world in some other respect, differ not at all in that there are many of the same kind, so that their first principles cannot be limited in number (just as Women Phone the elements of all the language in this sensible world are not limited in number, but in kind, unless one takes the elements of this individual syllable or of this individual articulate sound-whose elements will be limited even in number; so is it also Vans Sneakers in the case of the intermediates; for there also Men Oversized Coats the members of the same kind are infinite in number), so that if there are not-besides perceptible and mathematical objects-others such as some maintain the Forms to be, there will be no substance which is one in number, but only in kind, nor will the first principles of things be determinate in number, but only in kind:-if then this must be so, the Forms Adidas NMD Runner also must therefore be held to exist. Even if those who support this view do not express it articulately, still this Vans Tops Men is what they mean, and they must be maintaining the Forms just because each of Adidas Stan Smith the Forms is a substance and none is by accident.
But if we Converse Damskie are to suppose both that the Forms exist and that the principles are one in number, not in kind, we have mentioned the impossible results that Menn necessarily follow.
(13) Closely connected with this is the question whether the elements exist potentially or in some other manner. If in some other way, there will be something else prior to the first principles; for the potency is prior to the actual cause, and it is not necessary for everything potential to be actual.-But if the elements exist potentially, it is possible that everything that is should not be. For even that which is not yet is capable of being; for that which is not comes to be, but nothing that is incapable of being comes to be.
(12) We must not only raise these questions about the first principles, but also ask whether they are universal or what we call individuals. If they are universal, they will not be substances; for everything that is common indicates not a ‘this’ but a ‘such’, but substance is a ‘this’. And Męskie Vans Rata Vulc if we are to be allowed to lay it down that a common predicate is a ‘this’ and a single thing, Socrates will be several animals-himself and ‘man’ and ‘animal’, if each of these indicates a ‘this’ and a single thing.
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