The philosophy of Aristotle
Choice, then, seems to be identical with the voluntary, though it is not the same, since the latter is wider; for both children and the other animals partake in it, but not in choice, and things done suddenly are thought to be voluntary, but not chosen. Continue reading “What choice is and how it stands with respect to the voluntary”
One might raise the question whether statement and opinion are changeable or not; for it seems that the same statement is both true and false. For example, the statement that a man is sitting, were it true, the same statement will be false when he has got up. Similarly with opinions. For if anyone thinks truly that somebody is sitting, when he has got up this same opinion will be false, if he still holds the same opinion about him. Hence these will be changeable, as being, though numerically one and the same, able to receive contraries. Continue reading “Whether statement and opinion are changeable or not”
