Previously Unpublished Works, Fascicle 13 (1909) - Page 16


It is asked what the moving principle is in the motion of alteration	86 motion of alteration: a change in quality, such as an object turning from cold to hot.
It is asked what the moving principle is in growth	87
It is asked what the principle is in motion according to place: it is asked what is "the straight"	88 motion according to place: also called local motion or change of position.
It is asked what the internal moving principle is in circular motion	88
It is asked what the internal moving principle is in the motion of living beings	89 living beings: literally "ensouled things," referring to plants, animals, and humans that have an internal source of movement.
It is asked which matter should be called nature: it is asked whether bare matter	89
folio 2, column a, line 1 It is asked what that form is, through which prime matter is called nature	90
It is asked whether substantial form is nature	91 substantial form: the essential nature that makes a thing what it is, such as the "humanity" of a human.
It is asked whether accidental form is nature	91 accidental form: a non-essential quality, like being tan or tall, which can change without the object becoming a different kind of thing.
It is asked concerning privation whether it is nature	92
It is asked whether the mathematicianoriginal manuscript reading: "methafisicus" (metaphysician) and the natural physicist consider the same things	93

⟨Since nature is spoken of in two ways, etc.⟩

original: "Quoniam autem natura dicitur dupliciter etc." This refers to Aristotle’s distinction between nature as matter and nature as form in Physics II.2.


It is asked whether it is possible to posit abstraction	94 abstraction: the mental process of separating a quality or form from the physical matter it exists in.
It is asked whether the physicist ought to abstract	95
It is asked whether the natural philosopher can abstract form from matter	95
It is asked whether the mathematician ought to abstract form from matter	96
It is asked concerning continuous quantity, whether it ought to be abstracted from motion and matter	97
It is asked whether place can be abstracted by the mathematician	98
It is asked whether time can be abstracted by the mathematician	98
It is asked whether speech can be abstracted by the mathematician	99
It is asked what the matter is in which quantity ought to be and from which it ought to be abstracted	99

⟨Having determined these things about the causes, both what kind and how many they are⟩

original: "Hiis autem determinatis de causis et quales et quot." This introduces Aristotle's discussion of the four causes in Physics II.3.


It is asked what this name "cause" signifies	100
It is asked whether "cause" is said univocally	101 univocally: when a word is used with the exact same meaning in different instances.
It is asked of which cause "cause" is said first	102
It is asked which cause is more noble among the other three	102
It is asked concerning the property of the material cause	103 material cause: the physical "stuff" out of which something is made, like the bronze of a statue.
It is asked concerning the property of form, which indicates what the being of a thing is	104 being of a thing: original "esse rei," referring to the essential existence or definition of an object.