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Quotation from Metaphysics by Aristotle
“for the physician does not cure man, except in an incidental way, but Callias or Socrates or some other called by some such individual name, who happens to be a man”
Metaphysics, Book I (Alpha), Part 1, trans. W. D. Ross (1908)
Aristotle explains why men of experience often succeed better in practice than men of theory: action concerns individuals, and it is the individual patient who must be healed.
Citation: "for the physician does not cure man, except in an incidental way, but Callias or Socrates or some other called by some such individual name, who happens to be a man" — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book I (Alpha), Part 1, trans. W. D. Ross (1908). (id aristotle-metaphysics-q2)
