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Ideas of Collegium Conimbricense, by Text

[Portuguese, fl. 1595, group of Jesuit commentators on Aristotle, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.]

1595	Aristotelian commentaries

I.10.4 Gen&C	p.462	16720	Secondary qualities come from temperaments and proportions of primary qualities
			Full Idea: Colors, flavours, smells, and other secondary qualities arise from the various temperaments and proportions of the primary qualities.
			From: Collegium Conimbricense (Aristotelian commentaries [1595], I.10.4 Gen&C), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 21.2
			A reaction: This is a bit more subtle than merely mixing the primary qualities. What about the powers of the primary qualities? Presumably that is the 'temperaments'?

Phys I.9.11.2	p.556	16751	Unity by aggregation, order, inherence, composition, and simplicity
			Full Idea: The Coimbrans have five degrees of unity: by aggregation (stones), by order (an army), per accidens (inherence), per se composite unity (connected), and per se unity of simple things.
			From: report of Collegium Conimbricense (Aristotelian commentaries [1595], Phys I.9.11.2) by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 24.3
			A reaction: [my summary of Pasnau's summary] Take some stones, then order them, then glue them together, then melt them together. The unity of inherence is a different type of unity from these stages. This is a hylomorphic view.