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| | The Problem of Mechanism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The term physics, comes from the Greek physis and thus in turn from the verb phyo, which means "to bring forth, produce, put forth; to beget, engender, generate" and so on (Lidell and Scott Lexicon). |
 | | These terms seem to me apt, since they are commonly taken to; be characteristic of organisms i.e., the immanent activity of form and finality, internality of relation among the distinct "parts" of the organism, and consequently a wholeness of the organism which is distinct from the sum of its "parts. |
 | | First of all, nature (matter in its actual instances) seen by Aristotle to be internally active (e.g., formal and final) now becomes a nature (matter) without such internal activity, hence a nature (matter) which is essentially inert (or as Descartes says, in repose). |
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