nce of any separate class of being. Therefore let these be dismissed, and let us consider the causes and the principles of being itself, qua being. (It was clear in our discussion of the various meanings of terms, that ‘being’ has several meanings.)
Book VII
THERE are several senses in which a thing may be said to ‘be’, as we pointed out previously in our book Alexis Sanchez Pelipaidat on the various senses of words;’ for in one sense the ‘being’ meant is ‘what a thing is’ or a ‘this’, and in another sense it means a quality or quantity or one of the other things that are predicated as these Ukraine Pelipaidat are. While ‘being’ has all these senses, obviously that which ‘is’ primarily is the ‘what’, which indicates the substance of the thing. For when we say of what quality a thing is, we PJS Naiset Untuvaliivi say that it is good New Zealand Pelipaidat or bad, not that it is three cubits long or that it is a man; but when we say Colombia what it is, we do not say ‘white’ or ‘hot’ or Bayern München ‘three cubits long’, but ‘a man’ or ‘a ‘god’. And all other things are said to Chelsea be because they are, some of them, quantities of that which is in this primary sense, others qualities of it, others affections of it, and others some other determination of it. And so one might even raise the Mexico Dame Fodboldtrøjer question whether the words ‘to walk’, ‘to be Brasilien Børn Fodboldtrøjer healthy’, ‘to sit’ imply that each of these things is existent, and similarly in any other case of this sort; for none of them is either self-subsistent or capable of being separated from substance, but rather, if anything, it is that which walks or sits or is healthy that is an existent thing. Now these are seen to be more real because there is something definite which underlies them (i.e. the substance or individual), which is implied in such a predicate; for we never use the word ‘good’ or ‘sitting’ without implying this. Clearly then it is in virtue of this category that each of the others also is. Therefore that which is primarily, i.e. not in a qualified sense but without qualification, must be substance.
Now there are several senses in which a thing is said to be first; yet substance is first in every sense-(1) in definition, (2) in order of knowledge, (3) in time. For (3) of the other categories none can exist independently, but only substance. And (1) in definition also this is first; for in the definition of each term the definition of its substance must be present. And (2) we think we know each thing most fully, when we know what it is, e.g. what man Sao Paulo Fodboldtrøjer is or what fire is, rather than when we know its quality, its quantity, or its place; since we know each of these predicates also, only when we Northern Ireland Pelipaidat know what the quantity or the quality is.
And indeed the question which was raised of old and is raised now and always, and is always the subject of doubt, viz. what being is, is just the question, what is substance? For it is this that some assert to be one, others more than one, and that some assert to be limited in number, others unlimited. And Rumania so we also must consider chiefly and primarily and almost exclusively what that links:
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