Physics book 2 aristotle biography
Physics book 2 aristotle biography pdf
Book 2 the mimic!
Chapter 1.
Some say matter: the primary constituent. Example: the wood in a bed.
Aristotelian physics
(If you plant a bed, it might grow into a tree, not into another bed.)
Others say form: The wood isn't the nature of the bed, only potentially so. The same holds for the matter of flesh or bone. The shape or form is nature, it belongs to a thing and is not separable, except in an account.
Aristotle: Form is more truly nature than matter. What is it that grows? Not what it's growing from, but what it's growing into.
Physics book 2 aristotle biography
Chapter 2. The student of nature (="the physicist")
Mathematician: studies surfaces, solids, lengths, points, features separable from bodies in thought.
Student of nature: studies bodies which have these features as coincidents.
Platonists: study forms, which is like the study of mathematics.
Aristotle: We should study nature as a form in a matter (like snubness, which is a certain shape in a certain matter, i.e. a rounde