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Single Idea 17842

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

Full Idea

The reason why all things are unities is indivisibility. In some, it is indivisibility with regard to movement, in others with regard to thought and the account.

Gist of Idea

Indivisibility is the cause of unity, either in movement, or in the account or thought

Source

Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1052a35)

Book Reference

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


A Reaction

This is puzzling, since Aristotle wasn't an atomist, and therefore thought that everything was endlessly divisible. He might better have said that unified things 'strongly resist division'.