By Doris Lessing
ISBN-10: 0062295012
ISBN-13: 9780062295019
The prestigious writer explores new how you can view ourselves and the society we are living in, and offers us clean solutions to such enduring questions as how you can imagine for ourselves and comprehend what we all know.
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The properties of the bed derive from the properties of the natural materials that compose the bed. Aristotle correctly observes that if we bury a wooden bed frame, if anything grows from it, it will not be a bed but a tree. Once again, we return to Aristotle's observation that 'human begets human'. A tree begets a tree, a bird begets a bird, but a bed does not beget a bed, nor does a ship beget a ship. These artefacts thus lack the crucial capacity for reproduction that is the mark of individual living things.
E. the basic elemental stuff of the universe such as earth, air, water and fire. The Eleatic philosophers Parmenides, Melissus and Zeno fall outside of this general trend in Presocratic thought, and their views will be considered along with those of Plato. For now let us consider the materialist views of the Presocratics. e. they held that the arche is one type of matter, whether earth, air, water or fire. 1 It is difficult to interpret this claim. Thales may mean that everything that is comes from water; all plants, animals, rocks and indeed everything finds its origin in water.
These terms are not substances; these terms exist only as attributes of substances. We have thus arrived at the basic framework of Aristotle's theory of substance. In what follows, I shall address some remaining issues and questions regarding Aristotle's theory. One key issue that helps to illustrate the fundamental differences between Aristotle and Plato concerns the relationship of ontological dependence. Aristotle is clear that without primary substances none of the other things would exist; without the ultimate subjects, then, secondary substances and attributes would not exist (2b5-6).
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