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With regard to the substance and nature of the one we must ask in
which of two ways it exists. |
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If, then, no universal can be a substance, as has been said our discussion
of substance and being, and if being itself cannot be a substance
in the sense of a one apart from the many (for it is common to the
many), but is only a predicate, clearly unity also cannot be a substance; |
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Further, the position must be similar in all the kinds of unity. |
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That the one, then, in every class is a definite thing, and in no
case is its nature just this, unity, is evident; |