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Again, coming from certain things means in one sense that these are still to be found in the product, and in another that they are not; which sense does number come from these elements? Only things that are generated can come from elements which are present in them. Does number come, then, from its elements as from seed? But nothing can be excreted from that which is indivisible. Does it come from its contrary, its contrary not persisting? But all things that come in this way come also from something else which does persist. Since,Parajumpers Damen Irene Jacken Schweiz, then, one thinker places the 1 as contrary to plurality,Moncler Chamonix, and another places it as contrary to the unequal, treating the 1 as equal,Inter Milan Drakt Barn, number must be being treated as coming from contraries. There is, then, something else that persists,Irland Landslagsdrakt, from which and from one contrary the compound is or has come to be. Again, why in the world do the other things that come from contraries,Parajumpers Männer Perfect Jacken Schweiz, or that have contraries, perish (even when all of the contrary is used to produce them), while number does not? Nothing is said about this. Yet whether present or not present in the compound the contrary destroys it,Moncler Fragon, e.g. ‘strife’ destroys the ‘mixture’ (yet it should not; for it is not to that that is contrary).
Once more, it has not been determined at all in which way numbers are the causes of substances and of being-whether (1) as boundaries (as points are of spatial magnitudes). This is how Eurytus decided what was the number of what (e.g. one of man and another of horse), viz. by imitating the figures of living things with pebbles, as some people bring numbers into the forms of triangle and square. Or (2) is it because harmony is a ratio of numbers, and so is man and everything else? But how are the attributes-white and sweet and hot-numbers? Evidently it is not the numbers that are the essence or the causes of the form; for the ratio is the essence,Moncler Vosges, while the number the causes of the form; for the ratio is the essence,Paris Saint Germain PSG Drakt, while the number is the matter. E.g. the essence of flesh or bone is number only in this way, ‘three parts of fire and two of earth’. And a number, whatever number it is, is always a number of certain things, either of parts of fire or earth or of units; but the essence is that there is so much of one thing to so much of another in the mixture; and this is no longer a number but a ratio of mixture of numbers, whether these are corporeal or of any other kind.
Number, then, whether it be number in general or the number which consists of abstract units,Moncler Tinuviel, is neither the cause as agent, nor the matter,Canada Goose Maitland Parka, nor the ratio and form of things. Nor,Mexico Drakt Damer, of course, is it the final cause.
Book XIV Chapter 6
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