
Physics by Aristotle
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The Infinite and the Whole
The infinite is divisible by diminution and reciprocal addition, it is also a whole and finite, not essentially, but through another. It does not comprehend, but is comprehended so far as it is infinite, hence also it is unknown,. For matter has not form, so that the infinite has rather the relation of a part than of a whole. If however it comprehends both insensibles and intelligibles, the great and the small, it isAlso necessary that it should comprehend intelligibles, but it is absurd and impossible that what is unknown and indefinite should comprehend and bound. The one is indivisible, whatever one it may be. In a progression to that which is least
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