5/21/2023 0 Comments Aristotle metaphysics book 7Therefore all contraries are predicated of a subject, and none of them exists separately. This would be as absurd as to say that “white” is the first principle, not qua anything else but qua white, and yet that it is predicable of a subject, and is white because it is an attribute of something else because the latter will be prior to it.Moreover, all things are generated from contraries as from a substrate, and therefore contraries must most certainly have a substrate. All thinkers make the first principles contraries as in the realm of natural objects, so too in respect of the unchangeable substances.Now if nothing can be prior to the first principle of all things, that first principle cannot be first principle if it is an attribute of something else. With regard to this kind of substance,1 then, let the foregoing account suffice.
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