Date: 350 B.C.
"Suppose that the eye were an animal--sight would have been its soul, for sight is the substance or essence of the eye which corresponds to the formula, the eye being merely the matter of seeing; when seeing is removed the eye is no longer an eye, except in name"
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Date: 350 B.C.
"It is not necessary to ask whether the soul and its body are one, just as we do not ask about wax and its shape."
preview | full record— Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Date: 350 B.C.
"What it thinks must be in it just as characters may be said to be on a writing-tablet on which as yet nothing actually stands written: this is exactly what happens with mind."
preview | full record— Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)