Full Idea
The statue is not called 'stone' but 'stoney'. ...The building is said to be 'bricked', not 'bricks'.
Gist of Idea
The statue is not called 'stone' but 'stoney'
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1033a08)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.192
A Reaction
We have the same distinction in English (best expressed as 'made of stone'). The point is that in thought we identify a statue as primarily something other than the stone of which it is made, though that may not prove anything about reality.