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The continuous is a species of the contiguous. I call two things
continuous when the limits of each, with which they touch and by which
they are kept together, become one and the same, so that plainly the
continuous is found in the things out of which a unity naturally
arises in virtue of their contact. And plainly the successive is the
first of these concepts (for the successive does not necessarily
touch, but that which touches is successive; and if a thing is
continuous, it touches, but if it touches, it is not necessarily
continuous; and in things in which there is no touching, there is no
organic unity); therefore a point is not the same as a unit; for
contact belongs to points, but not to units, which have only
succession; and there is something between two of the former, but
not between two of the latter.
Book XII
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The subject of our inquiry is substance; for the principles and
the causes we are seeking are those of substances. For if the universe
is of the nature of a whole, substance is its first part; and if it
coheres merely by virtue of serial succession, on this view also
substance is first, and is succeeded by quality, and then by quantity.
At the same time these latter are not even being in the full sense,
but are qualities and movements of it,-or else even the not-white
and the not-straight would be being; at least we say even these are,
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