M.
Madvig, his view of “exoteric discourse,� [49].
Mathematics, theoretical science, subject of, [423], [593].
Matter, a variety of Cause, [246], [611]; joint-factor with Form in the intellectual generation of the Individual, [445], [598] seq.; and Form, distinction, of, a capital feature in Aristotle’s First Philosophy, [454], [595] seq. (from Metaph. Book Z onwards); relation of, to Form, [455], [456]; as the Potential, [455], [615] seq.; various grades of, [456].
Mechanics, place of, in Aristotle’s philosophy, [54].
Megarics, allowed no power not in actual exercise, [614].
Memory, Tract on, and Reminiscence, [475]; nature of, as distinguished from Phantasy, [475]; distinguished from Reminiscence, [476]; phenomena of, [477].
Menedêmus, disallowed negative propositions, [136].
Meno, Platonic, question as to possibility of learning in, [212].
Menœkeus, letter to, from Epikurus, [654].
Mentor, Persian general, drove Aristotle from Mitylene, [5].
Metaphysics, in modern sense, covers Aristotle’s Physica and Metaphysica, [422].
Metaphysica, name not used by Aristotle, [54], [59]; relation of the, to the Physica, [54], [422]; characteristic distinction of the, [422].
Meteorologica, connected with what other works, [54].
Metrodorus, third husband of Aristotle’s daughter, [20].
Middle term in Syllogism, literal signification of, [148]; how to find a, [157] seq.; the Why of the conclusion in Demonstration, [219]; power of swiftly divining a, [237]; fourfold question as to, in Science, [239]; as Cause, [246].
Mieza, school of Aristotle there, [6].
Mill, Mr. J. S., on the Ten Categories, [90 n.]; his system of Logic, in relation to Aristotle’s, [198]-201; on indemonstrable truths, [229 n.]
Milton, his description of Realism, [552].
Mitylene, Aristotle spent some time there, [4].
Modal Propositions, form of Antiphasis in, [127]; excluded by Hamilton and others from Logic, [130]; place of, in Formal Logic vindicated, [131]; Aristotle’s treatment of, not satisfactory, [133], [138]; doctrine of, related to Aristotle’s Ontology and Physics, [133]; disadvantageously mixed up with the Assertory, [138], [143], [154]; in Syllogism, [204].
Modes of Figure, [149]; see [Figure].
Moon, spherical, [646]; motions of, [647].
Motion, Zeno’s argument against, paradoxical, [365]; the kinds of local, [593].
Motus, under Opposita, [104].
Movent, The Immovable Prime, [624] seq.
Music, necessary part of education, [545].
Myrmex, slave or pupil of Aristotle, [19].