[285] As if Mill wrote exclusively for Oxford tutors, and as if other philosophers had not constantly elucidated their arguments by concrete examples. One does not see why the village matron should be more deserving of contempt than Aristotle’s Thebans and Phocians.
[286] That is, knowledge which has never been actualised.
[287] It is a mistake to translate νόησις, as the Germans do, by Anschauung. The Nous does not intuite ideas, but is converted into and consists of them.
[288] For Analogy, see Top., II., x., sub in.; Disjunction, II., vi., sub in.; Hypothetical Reasoning, II., x., p. 115, a, 15; Method of Differences, II., xi., sub in.; Method of Residues, VI., xi., sub in.; Concomitant Variations, II., x., p. 114, b, 37; V., viii., sub in.; VI., vii., sub in. The Method of Agreement occurs An. Prior., II., xxvii., sub fin.; and An. Post., II., xiii., p. 97, b, 7.
[289] It may possibly be urged that the fifth book of the Nicomachean Ethics is of doubtful authenticity. Still the dilemma remains that Aristotle either omitted the most important of all moral questions from his ethics, or that he treated it in a miserably inadequate manner.
[290] Eth. Nic., V., iii.; Rhet., I., vi., p. 1362, b, 28; ix., p. 1366, b, 4.
[291] P. 753.
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