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Again, is this science concerned only with substances, or with attributes as well?Cf. Aristot. Met. 3.1.8-10, Aristot. Met. 3.2.18-19. For if it is a demonstration of attributes, it is not concerned with substances; and if there is a separate science of each, what is each of these sciences, and which of them is Wisdom? qua demonstrative, the science of attributes appears to be Wisdom; but qua concerned with that which is primary, the science of substances.
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Nor must we suppose that the science which we are seeking is concerned with the causes described in the Physics.Aristot. Physics 2.3. It is not concerned with the final cause; for this is the Good, and this belongs to the sphere of action and to things which are in motion; and it is this which first causes motion (for the end is of this nature); but there is no Prime Mover in the sphere of immovable things.
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And in general it is a difficult question whether the science which we are now seeking is concerned with sensible substances, or not with sensible substances, but with some other kind.Cf. Aristot. Met. 3.1.7, Aristot. Met.3.2.20-30. If with another kind, it must be concerned either with the Forms or with mathematical objects. Now clearly the Forms do not exist. (But nevertheless, even if we posit them, it is a difficult question as to why the same rule does not apply to the other things of which there are Forms as applies to the objects of mathematics.
