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2 ^ Piatt : TJ vulg. 



« With this definition, c/. 716 a 7 flf., T21 b 6, and Phys. 

 190 b 3-5. — At this point in the Greek text there follow 

 some unintelligible phrases which I have omitted from the 

 translation. The version of them given in the ed. princeps 

 differs considerably from that in the Berlin edition, and they 

 may be fragments of some annotation upon the definition 

 (founded perhaps on some such passage as 765 b 12, 13 {q.v.) 

 or, more probably, on 11. 724 b 2-4, where rf. note and refer- 

 ence to Physics ; avOpconos is there used as an illustration and 

 there maj^ have been a similar illustration here, which has 

 been corrupted). Actually any addition to the definition, 

 as apart from an illustration of it, at this point is inappro- 

 priate, as Aristotle is here giving the simplest and basic 

 definition, from which he builds up his final definition ; this 



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