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Page 102
... gold . There are typical behaviour patterns of horses . Gold is yellow , malleable , fusible , soluble in some acids and not in others . Horses have a characteristic shape , eat grass and hay , and sometimes whinny and neigh . Now to ...
... gold . There are typical behaviour patterns of horses . Gold is yellow , malleable , fusible , soluble in some acids and not in others . Horses have a characteristic shape , eat grass and hay , and sometimes whinny and neigh . Now to ...
Page 108
... gold that it is in a fluid state . Here there can obviously be no question of why gold as such , or men as such , have the attribute . So there can be no question of how they relate to the substantial form . They are neither part of the ...
... gold that it is in a fluid state . Here there can obviously be no question of why gold as such , or men as such , have the attribute . So there can be no question of how they relate to the substantial form . They are neither part of the ...
Page 135
... gold and our nominal essence , our idea of it , were of a stuff internally constituted of corpuscles of a certain size and shape we would then have instructively certain knowledge of gold's malleability . It would be certain because the ...
... gold and our nominal essence , our idea of it , were of a stuff internally constituted of corpuscles of a certain size and shape we would then have instructively certain knowledge of gold's malleability . It would be certain because the ...
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Chapter 2 | 53 |
Chapter 4 | 149 |
Bibliography of Books and Articles referred to more than once | 190 |
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