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Metaphysics.
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"Euclides metaphysicus, sive, De principiis sapientiæ stoecheidea E. / Authore Thoma Anglo ex albiis east - saxonum." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65783.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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Prop. VII.
In omni ente corporeo divisibilis
est ratio suppositi à naturâ.
a 1.1 CUm enim suppositum di∣camus
Rem naturae, Na∣turam
autem Rem, quatenus
explicatur per definitionem;
evidens autem sit determina∣tiones,
quae cum ordine & in∣divisibilitate
quadam integrant
definitionem, esse praeterea
considerabiles in ipsâ re, &
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singulatim & collectivè abstra∣hendo
à connexione & ordine,
consequens est, notionem sup∣positi
aliam esse & plus inclu∣dere
quam notio naturae com∣prehendat
formaliter. Ulteriùs,
b 1.2 cùm Elementa non sint con∣tinuè
multiplicata, sicut gradus
raritatis & densitatis, clarum
est, plures gradus raritatis &
densitatis successivè in eodem
elemento reperiri, quorū varie∣tas
cùm non possit ad essentiae
rationem, quae est indivisibilis,
nisi materialiter pertinere, va∣riatio
eorum sic variat supposi∣tum,
ut non tangat naturam
seu essentiae rationem. Quare
necesse est realem divisibili∣tatem
esse inter suppositum
& naturam in Elementis.
Et cùm mutatio rari & densi,
quae non variat elementi ratio∣nem
si intercidat primò-mixto,
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non variet ipsius rationem, ut
quae ex elementis, quae manent
eadem, sit composita, ex pri∣mò-mixtis
verò sint compositae
similares partes Animalium;
conficitur, in omnibus cor∣poribus
variationem con∣tingere
in supposito & non in
naturâ, &, per consequens, Me∣taphysicè
& reipsâ divisibilita∣tem
inter suppositum & Natu∣ram
intervenire.