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vifion made by Archytas— -his Work Metaphyfical— Arlflotle's Book of Categories a 

 Logical Work— The Nature of Porphyry's Divifion— The Nature alfo of Plato's— 

 Both different from that of Archytas — Examination of the Univcrfals of Archytas — 

 AVhether there be too many or too few of them — not too many of them — nor too few 

 — Shown that Motion ought not to be one of Archytas's Univerfals — nor Time—not 

 Space — nor Matter — nor Form — nor Powcr-^nor Faculty — Mind, confidcrcd as a 

 Subflance, falls under this Divifion — Habit likewife falls under it — Ariftotle's Divi- 

 f:on into Categories, not compleat — Conclufion of this Part of the Work. Page 329 



CHAP. IV. 



The Subje£l of Metaphyfics, Univerfals or Generals^ of the highcfl: Kind— What Ge- 

 nerals are not to be underftood without fome Knowledge of Logic — Difference be- 

 twixt Mathematics and Metaphyfics — Mathematical Ideas — Number — This the Sub- 

 jedl of Arithmetic — Figure the Subject of Geometry — Analyfis of it into Superficies, 

 Lines, and Points — Motion — This the Subjed both of Geometry and Arithmetic — 

 — The Subjects of Metaphyfics — Confiders what is different, and what is common, 

 in theSubje<Sls of Mathematics — Its Way of confid.<.ring Motion — ^Treats of Subjects 

 not comprehended in any particular Science — The proper Subject of Metaphyfics is 

 immaterial Subflances — The Way of coming to the Idea of them—Difference be- 

 twixt Antient and Modern Philofophy — No fufficient caufe of Motion affigned by the 

 Moderns — Nature, according to their Syftems, defedtive p. 336 



BOOK IV. 



Of the Adjunds of Nature, Time, Space, and Place. 



C H A P. I. 



Timet though not a Caufe, a neceffary Adjun£l of the Material World— TzW, like 

 CTery thing in the Material World, dependent upon Motion— -not to be comprehend- 

 ed at once, but to be inveftigated — Exijience^ Duration^ included in the Idea of 

 Time — Time a Meafure of nothing but Duration — but not of the Duration of all 

 Beings — only of fuch as are liable to Change of one Kind or another — ^What Kind of 



Meafure 



