CHAP XV. Of the Topicks from the Whole and his Parts.
THe whole and its parts are relations.
The whole is that which is composed by the union of all the parts; as, a man: The parts are those which are united in the whole; as, the head, the breast, the legs. The essential parts of an essential whole are matter and form. The integral parts of an integral whole are those which differ so in their scituation, as that one part may be separated from another; as the parts of a house are, the foundation, the walls, the roof. An Homogeneal Integer or whole is distributed into Homogeneal or simila∣ry, parts, of which every one hath name and definition of the whole; as, every part of wa∣ter is water. An Heterogeneal whole is distri∣buted