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Since at the start we distinguished the various marks by which we
determine substance, and one of these was thought to be the essence,
we must investigate this. |
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Nor yet is the whole of this the essence of a thing; |
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But since there are also compounds answering to the other categories
(for there is a substratum for each category, e.g. for quality, quantity,
time, place, and motion), we must inquire whether there is a formula
of the essence of each of them, i.e. whether to these compounds also
there belongs an essence, e.g. 'white man'. |
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But is being-a-cloak an essence at all? |
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Or has 'definition', like 'what a thing is', several meanings? |
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We must no doubt inquire how we should express ourselves on each
point, but certainly not more than how the facts actually stand. |
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