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The Theory of Pores But while the Sphere can be described as the Original mixture, all compounded bodies (\u2018mortals\u2019 as Empedocles calls them, because they both come into being and are destroyed), are simply mixtures. Which body will mix with which, as wine does with water and which won\u2019t, as water with oil, depends upon the kind of pores each has: if they are symmetrical and fit each other, they will interpenetrate, if not they won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Some philosophers (including Empedocles) held this theory as regards certain bodies, not confining it to those which act and are acted upon; but mixture also, they assert, takes place only between bodies whose pores are symmetrical with one another. (Aristotle, De gen. et cor. 324b) The pores themselves are created in compound bodies formed by the joining together of the roots.<\/p>\n

The difference in the arrangement of the roots in compound bodies makes for the different kinds of pores that each body has. Apart from a general account of mixture, the theory of pores is also used to account for a variety of physical phenomena: magnetic attraction, reflection, the phenomena of transparency, as well as physical growth. The roots themselves, however, have no pores. Effluences All compounds produce \u2018effluences\u2019 or \u2018emanations\u2019 (B89: \u2018knowing that there are effluences from all things which have come into being\u2019).<\/p>\n

These are presumed similar to the eidola or surface images of the Atomists. Effluences are material, and may be likened to a film which resembling the surface of an object, comes off it: but they are not simply surface phenomena but qualitatively identical to the object that produces them.<\/p>\n

How or why the object produces them is less clear. But complementary to the active production of effluences is the passive possession of the channels or pores penetrating every compound object: the function of these channels is to receive the effluences or emanations of other bodies. This correlation provides Empedocles not only a basis for explaining the mixture of two or more bodies, but also with a theory of perception and, based on the same principles, perhaps also a theory of knowledge.<\/p>\n

Aristotle makes a very general criticism of the theory that mixture between objects takes place by means of emanations from one which fit the pores of the other, by questioning the very logic of introducing the pores in the first place, In general\u2026it is superfluous to postulate the existence of pores; for if the agent effects nothing by contact, neither will it effect anything by passing through pores. If, however, it effects anything by contact, then, even without there being any pores, some of those things which are by nature adapted for reciprocal effect of this kind will be acted upon, while others will act.<\/p>\n

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1kitap1.com\/en ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY 1kitap1.com\/en ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY THALES TO ARISTOTLE THIRD EDITION VIJAY TANKHA 1kitap1.com\/en CONTENTS Preface to Third Edition Preface About the Author Chronology Sources PART I: THE IONIANS 1. The Milesians Thales of Miletus Water Soul and Motion The Gods Anaximander Apeiron as Arche The Elements Cosmic Justice World Formation Anaximenes Air as Arche The Stability of the Earth Change as Alteration Meteorology The Soul Divinity Postscript to Milesian Thought: Philosophy as Science 2.<\/p>\n

Heraclitus of Ephesus Characteristics of His Style Interpreting Heraclitus Doctrines A Logos of the Logos PART II: THE ITALIANS 3. Pythagoreans Pythagoras and Pythagoreans Immortality and Transmigration Animal Sacrifice and Vegetarianism Philosophy as Contemplation Mathematics and Music Things are Numbers Pythagorean Cosmology 4. Philolaus of Croton Philolaus The Argument of B2 The Soul 5. Parmenides of Elea Life and Work The One Is or Is Not Thinking and Being The Signs Aristotle\u2019s Criticism Parmenides\u2019 Influence 6. Zeno of Elea Zeno and Parmenides Arguments against Plurality Arguments against Motion Zeno\u2019s Influence PART III: THE PLURALISTS 7.<\/p>\n

Empedocles of Acragas Life and Works Nature: The Roots The Cosmic Cycle Mixture Purifications Empedocles\u2019 Dualism 8. Anaxagoras of Clazomenae Life and Works Matter Mind Cosmogony and Cosmology Physiological Doctrines Anaxagoras and Empedocles 9. The Atomists The Founders and their Doctrines Atoms The Void Formation of Compounds Chance and Necessity Democritean Ethics Ethics and Physics PART IV: THE SOPHISTS AND SOCRATES 10.<\/p>\n

Protagoras and Gorgias Protagoras, Gorgias and the Sophistic Movement The Art of Rhetoric Nature versus Culture Epistemology Protagoras on Truth Gorgias Existence and Non-existence The Sophists and Democracy 11. Socrates Life and Works The Ethical Turn Search for Definitions Socratic Dialectic Virtue and the Soul The Medical Analogy Socrates and the Sophists Care of the Self 12. Plato Life Works Dialogues Ethics Theory of forms The form of the good Later dialectic Political theory Theology Myth 13.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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