Works › Posterior Analytics, Books I–II
Volume 2 · p. 109
Treatise IV, Chapter IX Continuation. On The Questions Whether There Is A Stand In Extremes And Middles, Lest One Proceed To Infinity
Posset tamen dici, quod licet cavillando aliquis diceret, quod praedicatio convertibilium abiret in infinitum, non tamen in ascendendo vel descendendo: eo quod omnia similiter se habent ad invicem, et nullum supereminet alteri: neque etiam sunt infinita eo modo quo accipitur ista praedicatio: quia infinita per se esse non possunt accidentia ejusdem subjecti. Et si convertatur, ita quod subjectum praedicetur de accidenti, jam est praedicatio per accidens, de qua praedicatione non est hic loquendum: et haec videtur esse intentio Philosophi.
Nevertheless it could be said that, although someone, cavilling, might say that the predication of convertibles goes away into infinity, nevertheless it does not do so in ascending or descending, by the fact that all are related similarly to one another, and none rises above another. Nor are they infinite in that mode in which this predication is taken, because there cannot be infinite accidents per se of the same subject. And if it is converted, so that the subject is predicated of the accident, now there is predication according to accident; and about that predication one must not speak here. And this seems to be the intention of the Philosopher.
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