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Full Idea
All things are not composed of opposites, because matter is not the opposite of anything.
Gist of Idea
Not everything is composed of opposites; what, for example, is the opposite of matter?
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1075a28)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.386
A Reaction
A nice counterexample
416 | Beautiful harmony comes from things that are in opposition to one another [Heraclitus] |
425 | A thing can have opposing tensions but be in harmony, like a lyre [Heraclitus] |
232 | Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato] |
627 | If everything is made of opposites, are the opposed things made of opposites? [Aristotle] |
628 | Not everything is composed of opposites; what, for example, is the opposite of matter? [Aristotle] |