Aristotle, Metaphysics Θ.8, 1050b6-28
The standard interpretation of this passage sees Aristotle as claiming that if a thing is F eternally, its being F is not the exercise of any potentiality to be F, and as explicitly applying this claim to the heavenly bodies. This interpretation faces a number of difficulties: I shall offer a differ...
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Brill Academic Publishers
2016
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