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Quotation from Posterior Analytics and Physics by Aristotle
“It is like a rout in battle stopped by first one man making a stand and then another, until the original formation has been restored. The soul is so constituted as to be capable of this process.”
Posterior Analytics and Physics, Posterior Analytics II.19 (100a), trans. G. R. G. Mure (1928)
Aristotle's image for the way universals form in the mind from many perceptions, one particular after another 'making a stand'.
Citation: "It is like a rout in battle stopped by first one man making a stand and then another, until the original formation has been restored. The soul is so constituted as to be capable of this process." — Aristotle, Posterior Analytics and Physics, Posterior Analytics II.19 (100a), trans. G. R. G. Mure (1928). (id aristotle-posterior-analytics-and-physics-q3)
Portrait: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575, After Lysippos, Public domain.
