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Due to the importance of Aristotle's account for every discussion that follows it, not to mention for the many that follow it without knowing it, and because the issues it raises arise repeatedly throughout this work, I am going to cite an extended extract from the relevant text (Aristotle, ''On the Soul'', 2.1), breaking up the argument into a number of individual premisses, stages, and examples.
Due to the importance of Aristotle's account for every discussion that follows it, not to mention for the many that follow it without knowing it, and because the issues it raises arise repeatedly throughout this work, I am going to cite an extended extract from the relevant text (Aristotle, ''On the Soul'', 2.1), breaking up the argument into a number of individual premisses, stages, and examples.
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| valign=top | a. || The theories of the soul (psyche) handed down by our predecessors have been sufficiently discussed; now let us start afresh, as it were, and try to determine (diorisai) what the soul is, and what definition (logos) of it will be most comprehensive (koinotatos).
| valign=top | a. || The theories of the soul (psyche) handed down by our predecessors have been sufficiently discussed; now let us start afresh, as it were, and try to determine (diorisai) what the soul is, and what definition (logos) of it will be most comprehensive (koinotatos).
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| valign=top | z. || This must suffice as an attempt to determine in rough outline the nature of the soul.
| valign=top | z. || This must suffice as an attempt to determine in rough outline the nature of the soul.
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==References==
==References==