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Chapter
XXXV.—Contradictory Propositions Advanced by Hermogenes
Respecting Matter and Its Qualities.
As regards all other points touching Matter,
although there is no necessity why we should treat of them (for our
first point was the manifest proof of its existence), we must for all
that pursue our discussion just as if it did exist, in order that its
non-existence may be the more apparent, when these other points
concerning it prove inconsistent with each other, and in order at the
same time that Hermogenes may acknowledge his own contradictory
positions. Matter, says he, at first sight seems to us to be
incorporeal; but when examined by the light of right reason, it
is found to be neither corporeal nor incorporeal. What is this right
reason of yours,6506
which declares
nothing right, that is, nothing certain? For, if I mistake not,
everything must of necessity be either corporeal or incorporeal
(although I may for the moment6507
allow that there is
a certain incorporeality in even substantial things,6508
| 6508 De substantiis
duntaxat. | although their very substance is the body of
particular things); at all events, after the corporeal and the
incorporeal there is no third state. But if it be
contended6509
| 6509 Age nunc sit:
“But grant that there is this third state.” | that there is a
third state discovered by this right reason of Hermogenes, which makes
Matter neither corporeal nor incorporeal, (I ask,) Where is it? what
sort of thing is it? what is it called? what is its description? what
is it understood to be? This only has his reason declared, that Matter
is neither corporeal nor incorporeal.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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