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Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book III: Chapter 7

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We must, therefore, turn to the question, what is the manner of their generation from one another? Is it as Empedocles and Democritus say, or as those who resolve bodies into planes say, or is there yet another possibility? (1) What the followers of Empedocles do, though without observing it themselves, is to reduce the generation of elements out of one another to an illusion.

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book III: Chapter 7

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