Kitap 5
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The term one is used (1.) in an accidental, (2.) in an absolute sense. (1.) In the accidental sense it is used as in the case of CoriscusCoriscus of Scepsis was a Platonist with whom Aristotle was probably acquainted; but the name is of course chosen quite arbitrarily. and cultured and cultured Coriscus (for Coriscus and cultured and cultured Coriscus mean the same);
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and cultured and upright and cultured upright Coriscus. For all these terms refer accidentally to one thing; upright and cultured because they are accidental to one substance, and cultured and Coriscus because the one is accidental to the other.
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And similarly in one sense cultured Coriscus is one with Coriscus, because one part of the expression is accidental to the other, e.g. cultured to Coriscus; and cultured Coriscus is one with upright Coriscus,
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because one part of each expression is one accident of one and the same thing. It is the same even if the accident is applied to a genus or a general term; e.g., man and cultured man are the same, either because cultured is an accident of man, which is one substance, or because both are accidents of some individual, e.g. Coriscus.
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But they do not both belong to it in the same way; the one belongs presumably as genus in the substance, and the other as condition or affection of the substance. Thus all things which are said to be one in an accidental sense are said to be so in this way.
