thing is itself is the single reason and the single cause to be given in answer to all such questions as why the man is man, or the musician musical’,PJS Herreklær UGO Parkas, unless one were to answer ‘because each thing is inseparable from itself, and its being one just meant this’; this,NHL Mens Buffalo Sabres Top Shelf Pullover Hoodie - Navy, however, is common to all things and is a short and easy way with the question). But we can inquire why man is an animal of such and such a nature. This, then, is plain, that we are not inquiring why he who is a man is a man. We are inquiring, then, why something is predicable of something (that it is predicable must be clear; for if not, the inquiry is an inquiry into nothing). E.g. why does it thunder? This is the same as ‘why is sound produced in the clouds?’ Thus the inquiry is about the predication of one thing of another. And why are these things, i.e. bricks and stones, a house? Plainly we are seeking the cause. And this is the essence (to speak abstractly), which in some cases is the end, e.g. perhaps in the case of a house or a bed, and in some cases is the first mover; for this also is a cause. But while the efficient cause is sought in the case of genesis and destruction, the final cause is sought in the case of being also.
The object of the inquiry is most easily overlooked where one term is not expressly predicated of another (e.g. when we inquire ‘what man is’),Keith Magnuson Tröjor, because we do not distinguish and do not say definitely that certain elements make up a certain whole. But we must articulate our meaning before we begin to inquire; if not, the inquiry is on the border-line between being a search for something and a search for nothing. Since we must have the existence of the thing as something given,Jack Roslovic Tröjor, clearly the question is why the matter is some definite thing; e.g. why are these materials a house? Because that which was the essence of a house is present. And why is this individual thing,Andrej Nestrasil Tröjor, or this body having this form, a man? Therefore what we seek is the cause, i.e. the form,Brian Bellows Tröjor, by reason of which the matter is some definite thing; and this is the substance of the thing. Evidently, then,Jori Lehtera Tröjor, in the case of simple terms no inquiry nor teaching is possible; our attitude towards such things is other than that of inquiry.
Since that which is compounded out of something so that the whole is one, not like a heap but like a syllable-now the syllable is not its elements, ba is not the same as b and a, nor is flesh fire and earth (for when these are separated the wholes, i.e. the flesh and the syllable, no longer exist, but the elements of the syllable exist,Aleksander Barkov Tröjor, and so do fire and earth); the syllable, then, is something-not only its elements (the vowel and the consonant) but also something else,NHL Mens St. Louis Blues Top Shelf Pullover Hoodie - Navy, and the flesh is not only fire and earth or the hot and the cold, but also something else:-if,Washington Capitals Tröjor, then,Jonathan Ericsson Tröjor, that something must itself be either an element or composed of elements,Carolina Hurricanes Tröjor, (1) if it is an element the same argument will again apply; for flesh will consist of this and fire and earth and something still further, so that the process will go on to infinity.
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