The 900 Theses

¶ The sense of touch is not a single sense Aristotle and his followers debated whether touch was one sense or a collection of several, such as hot/cold and wet/dry.
¶ No specialized craftsman can ask whether a thing exists meaning that a specific science assumes the existence of its subject matter rather than proving it.

TWO CONCLUSIONS ACCORDING TO AVEMPACE THE ARAB

/¶ In the heavens, matter is of a different nature than the matter of the lower worlds Avempace: the Latinized name of Ibn Bajja, a 12th-century Andalusian philosopher.
/¶ Light and color do not differ essentially.

¶ Conclusions according to the Greeks who profess the Peripatetic sect The "Peripatetics" were the followers of Aristotle, named for his habit of walking while teaching: Theophrastus, Ammonius, Simplicius, Alexander, and Themistius.

FOUR CONCLUSIONS ACCORDING TO THEOPHRASTUS

/¶ If the heavens were inanimate, they would be more ignoble than any living body; to say such a thing is impious in Philosophy.
¶ Quiddity the "what-ness" or essence of a thing is form alone.
¶ The active intellect relates to the production of intelligible concepts in the potential intellect just as the form of an art relates to the production of forms in the material of that art.
/¶ God moves the heavens as an end meaning God acts as the final cause or goal that the heavens strive toward.

THREE CONCLUSIONS ACCORDING TO AMMONIUS

/¶ The definition of the soul given by Aristotle—in which it is said "The soul is the act of the body"—must be understood causally, not formally, when applied to the rational soul (for which the definition is principally given).
¶ The rational soul is not united immediately to the organic body.
¶ When Aristotle says that first principles must always remain, he intends nothing else than that they are found in every transformation.

NINE CONCLUSIONS ACCORDING TO SIMPLICIUS

¶ To know one's own act is not common to every external sense, but is special to the human senses.
/¶ Aristotle, in his book On the Soul, treats only the rational part.
¶ When the soul returns perfectly into itself, then the active intellect [ceases] from understanding the subject?.