Μίξις
mixing, mixture
Translated by Marcelo Boeri23 Jan 2004Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
He who calls blending [kra=sis ] the genus of mixing [mi/cis ] is mistaken; for genus places [something] inside the species. In fact, mixing is something broader than blending, for if something is blended it is also mixed, but not everything which is mixed is blended. Certainly, the mixture of dry things is not a blending.1 Mixing is different from blending.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μίξις· ἁμαρτάνει ὁ λέγων μίξεως τὴν κρᾶσιν γένος· τὸ γένος γὰρ ὑποτίθησι τῷ εἴδει· ἐπὶ πλέον γάρ τι ἡ μίξις τῆς κράσεως. εἰ μὲν γάρ τι κέκραται, καὶ μέμικται· οὐ μὴν πᾶν μεμιγμένον κέκραται. ἡ μὲν γὰρ τῶν ξηρῶν μίξις οὐκ ἔστι κρᾶσις. ἔστι δὲ ἡ μίξις διάφορος τῆς κράσεως.
Betacode
*mi/cis: a(marta/nei o( le/gwn mi/cews th\n kra=sin ge/nos: to\ ge/nos ga\r u(poti/qhsi tw=| ei)/dei: e)pi\ ple/on ga/r ti h( mi/cis th=s kra/sews. ei) me\n ga/r ti ke/kratai, kai\ me/miktai: ou) mh\n pa=n memigme/non ke/kratai. h( me\n ga\r tw=n chrw=n mi/cis ou)k e)/sti kra=sis. e)/sti de\ h( mi/cis dia/foros th=s kra/sews.
Notes (1)
- 1From Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle’s Topics 315.27-316, 1 (cf. Topics 122b25). The genus should be inside the species (or the species should be placed under the genus) for, as Aristotle has said a couple of lines before, what takes part in the genus is either the species or the individual (Topics 122b20-21). ↩
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- coding — David Whitehead
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- Revised — Marcelo Boeri
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri