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john9221 · Wysłany: Śro 10:13, 16 Mar 2011

relative but quantitative
they would not have
contraries.
It is in the case of space that quantity most plausibly appears to admit
of a contrary. For men define the term 'above' as the contrary of 'below'
when it is the region at the centre they mean by 'below'; and this is so
because nothing is farther from the extremities of the universe than the
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region at the centre. Indeed
it seems that in defining contraries of every
kind men have recourse to a spatial metaphor
for they say that those
things are contraries which
within the same class
are separated by the
greatest possible distance.
Quantity does not
it appears
admit of variation of degree. One thing
cannot be two cubits long in a greater degree than another. Similarly with
regard to number: what is 'three' is not more truly three than what is 'five'
is five; nor is one set of three more truly three than another set. Again
one
period of time is not said to be more truly time than another. Nor is there
any other kind of quantity
of all that have been mentioned
with regard to
which variation of degree can be yilai:
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