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is also hard to say why wine is not said to be the matter of vinegar
nor potentially vinegar (though vinegar is produced from it), and
why a living man is not said to be potentially dead. In fact they
are not, but the corruptions in question are accidental, and it is the
matter of the animal that is itself in virtue of its corruption the
potency and matter of a corpse, and it is water that is the matter
of vinegar. For the corpse comes from the animal, and vinegar from
wine, as night from day. And all the things which change thus into one
another must go back to their matter; e.g. if from a corpse is
produced an animal, the corpse first goes back to its matter, and only
then becomes an animal; and vinegar first goes back to water, and only
then becomes wine.
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To return to the difficulty which has been stated with respect
both to definitions and to numbers, what is the cause of their
unity? In the case of all things which have several parts and in which
the totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is
something beside the parts, there is a cause; for even in bodies
contact is the cause of unity in some cases, and in others viscosity
or some other such quality. And a definition is a set of words which
is one not by being connected together, like the Iliad, but by dealing
with one object.-What then, is it that makes man one; why is he one
and not many, e
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