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Aristotle - index for METAPHYSICA Book 5 Part 17

Limit

  
Paragraph 1 'Limit' means
Paragraph 2 (1) the last point of each thing, i.e. the first point beyond which it is not possible to find any part, and the first point within which every part is;
Paragraph 3 (2) the form, whatever it may be, of a spatial magnitude or of a thing that has magnitude;
Paragraph 4 (3) the end of each thing (and of this nature is that towards which the movement and the action are, not that from which they are - though sometimes it is both, that from which and that to which the movement is, i.e. the final cause);
Paragraph 5 (4) the substance of each thing, and the essence of each;


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