Categoria: Tratado 37 (II,7)

The Second Ennead Seventh tractate. On complete transfusion.

1. Refutation of Anaxágoras and Democritus. Refutation of Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias. Refutation of the Stoics. Explanation of mixture that occupies more space than its elements. Case of mixture of unequal quantities. 2. Evaporation may lead to a third theory of mixture. Refutation of Stoic explanation of evaporation. Refutation of peripatetic explanation of evaporation.…

1. Consideremos ahora lo que se llama la mezcla total de los cuerpos. Si se mezcla un líquido a otro líquido, ¿es posible que cada uno de ellos penetre totalmente a través del otro o que el primero lo haga a través del segundo? Ninguna de las dos soluciones ofrece diferencia apreciable. Dejemos aparte a…

THE BODY IS RATIONALIZED MATTER. 3. Since we have spoken of corporeity, it must be analyzed. Is it a composite of all qualities, or does it constitute a form, a “reason,” which produces the body by presence in matter? If the body be the composite of all the qualities together with matter, this totality of…

EVAPORATION MAY LEAD TO A THIRD THEORY OF MIXTURE. 2. What happens when a mass of water transforms itself into air? This question demands particular treatment; for how can the transformed element occupy a greater extension? (We shall not try to explain it on either the Peripatetic or Stoic principles) because we have sufficiently developed…

REFUTATION OF ANAXÁGORAS AND DEMOCRITUS. 1. The subject of the present consideration is mixture to the point of total penetration of the different bodies. This has been explained in two ways: that the two liquids are mingled so as mutually to interpenetrate each other totally, or that only one of them penetrates the other. The…

3. We have thus covered our main ground, but since corporeity has been mentioned, we must consider its nature: is it the conjunction of all the qualities or is it an Idea, or Reason-Principle, whose presence in Matter constitutes a body? Now if body is the compound, the thing made up of all the required…

2. This, however, raises a problem deserving investigation in itself: what has happened when a definite magnitude of water becomes air, and how do we explain the increase of volume? But for the present we must be content with the matter thus far discussed out of all the varied controversy accumulated on either side. It…

1. Some enquiry must be made into what is known as the complete transfusion of material substances. Is it possible that fluid be blended with fluid in such a way that each penetrate the other through and through? or – a difference of no importance if any such penetration occurs – that one of them…

3. Puesto que hemos hablado de la corporeidad, convendrá que consideremos si se trata de un compuesto de todas las propiedades o de una forma o de una cierta razón que produce el cuerpo al instalarse en la materia. Si el cuerpo es la reunión de todas las cualidades con la materia, entonces la corporeidad…

2. Esto último es algo que hay que investigar por sí mismo; porque, ¿qué acontece cuando la masa de agua se convierte en aire? ¿Cómo se hace mayor en el elemento producido? Convendrá mantener muchas de las razones dadas en favor de las tesis ya dichas, y, desde luego, hemos de examinar por nosotros mismos…

1. Consideremos ahora lo que se llama la mezcla total de los cuerpos. Si se mezcla un líquido a otro líquido, ¿es posible que cada uno de ellos penetre totalmente a través del otro o que el primero lo haga a través del segundo? Ninguna de las dos soluciones ofrece diferencia apreciable. Dejemos aparte a…