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Single Idea 17840

[from 'Metaphysics' by Aristotle, in 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification ]

Full Idea

[A thing may be unified because it is] the numerically indivisible, the particular.

Gist of Idea

A unity may just be a particular, a numerically indivisible thing

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1052a30)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.286


A Reaction

One of four possible theories of unity. This one seems to beg the question, or only to offer unity as a primitive, unanalysable concept. Only abstract objects strike us as utterly indivisible.