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Owing to the difficulty about unity some speak of 'participation',
and raise the question, what is the cause of participation and what is
it to participate; and others speak of 'communion', as Lycophron
says knowledge is a communion of knowing with the soul; and others say
life is a 'composition' or 'connexion' of soul with body. Yet the same
account applies to all cases; for being healthy, too, will on this
showing be either a 'communion' or a 'connexion' or a 'composition' of
soul and health, and the fact that the bronze is a triangle will be
a 'composition' of bronze and triangle, and the fact that a thing is
white will be a 'composition' of surface and whiteness. The reason
is that people look for a unifying formula, and a difference,
between potency and complete reality. But, as has been said, the
proximate matter and the form are one and the same thing, the one
potentially, and the other actually. Therefore it is like asking
what in general is the cause of unity and of a thing's being one;
for each thing is a unity, and the potential and the actual are
somehow one. Therefore there is no other cause here unless there is
something which caused the movement from potency into actuality. And
all things which have no matter are without qualification
essentially unities.
Book IX
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WE have treated of that which is primarily and to which all the
other categories of being are referred-i
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