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Logic IV. 77
to think that this fact shows that the absolutes are not more grammatical abstractions but that the cause and constitute the very being of the concrete things. Now just as caloric is the occult principle behind hotness so the soul is the occult principle behind livingness and just as a hot thing cannot receive cold without its heat departing or being destroyed so a living thing cannot receive death without its soul departing or being destroyed. Now the principle of life cannot be destroyed for to exist is of its essence [how?] it can only departs [foreign text] 106D. [Summics?] has no further definite objection to make but still he feels uncertain and Plato approves of a certain hestation even when the arguments appear satisfactory. [Foreign text]