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'One' means (1) that which is one by accident, (2) that which is
one by its own nature. |
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(1) Instances of the accidentally one are
'Coriscus and what is musical', and 'musical Coriscus' (for it is the same thing
to say 'Coriscus and what is musical', and 'musical Coriscus'), and
'what is musical and what is just', and 'musical Coriscus and just Coriscus'. |
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(2) Of things that are called one in virtue
of their own nature some
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(a) are so called because they are continuous,
e.g. a bundle is made one by a band, and pieces of wood are made one
by glue; |
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(b)(i) Things are called one in another sense because their substratum
does not differ in kind; |
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(c) Two things are called one, when the definition which states the
essence of one is indivisible from another definition which shows
us the other (though in itself every definition is divisible). |
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While in a sense we call anything one if it is a quantity and continuous,
in a sense we do not unless it is a whole, i.e. unless it has unity
of form; |
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(3) The essence of what is one is to be some kind of beginning of
number; |
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Again, some things are one in number, others in species, others in
genus, others by analogy; |
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Evidently 'many' will have meanings opposite to those of 'one'; |
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