culty, while in the case of things done it is in the doer-viz. will, for that which is done and that which is willed are the same. Therefore, if all thought is either practical or productive or theoretical, physics must be a theoretical science, but it will theorize about such being as admits of being moved, and about substance-as-defined for the most part only as not separable from matter. Now, we must not fail to notice the mode of being of the essence and of its definition,Alex Galchenyuk Tröjor, for, without this, inquiry is but idle. Of things defined, i.e. of ‘whats’, some are like ‘snub’, and some like ‘concave’. And these differ because ‘snub’ is bound up with matter (for what is snub is a concave nose), while concavity is independent of perceptible matter. If then all natural things are a analogous to the snub in their nature; e.g. nose, eye,Ralph Lauren Polo Stad, face, flesh, bone, and, in general,Linus Ullmark Tröjor, animal; leaf,Mitchell Stephens Tröjor, root, bark, and, in general, plant (for none of these can be defined without reference to movement-they always have matter), it is clear how we must seek and define the ‘what’ in the case of natural objects, and also that it belongs to the student of nature to study even soul in a certain sense, i.e. so much of it as is not independent of matter.
That physics, then, is a theoretical science, is plain from these considerations. Mathematics also, however, is theoretical; but whether its objects are immovable and separable from matter, is not at present clear; still, it is clear that some mathematical theorems consider them qua immovable and qua separable from matter. But if there is something which is eternal and immovable and separable, clearly the knowledge of it belongs to a theoretical science,-not, however, to physics (for physics deals with certain movable things) nor to mathematics,CG Dame Hybridge Jakke, but to a science prior to both. For physics deals with things which exist separately but are not immovable,Alex Chiasson Tröjor, and some parts of mathematics deal with things which are immovable but presumably do not exist separately, but as embodied in matter; while the first science deals with things which both exist separately and are immovable. Now all causes must be eternal,Erik Gudbranson Tröjor, but especially these; for they are the causes that operate on so much of the divine as appears to us. There must, then, be three theoretical philosophies,Henrik Lundqvist Tröjor, mathematics,Rod Langway Tröjor, physics, and what we may call theology, since it is obvious that if the divine is present anywhere,Corey Perry Tröjor, it is present in things of this sort. And the highest science must deal with the highest genus. Thus,PJS Herreklær Schroeder Parkas, while the theoretical sciences are more to be desired than the other sciences,Milan Lucic Tröjor, this is more to be desired than the other theoretical sciences. For one might raise the question whether first philosophy is universal, or deals with one genus, i.e. some one kind of being; for not even the mathematical sciences are all alike in this respect,-geometry and astronomy deal with a certain particular kind of thing, while universal mathematics applies alike to all. We answer that if there is no substance other than those which are
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