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Zte Trincipiis & Caufis Rerum Naturalium.

In primis confundit Ariftoteles Principia rerum ,cumea-rum Caufis primariis. Nam utrobiqve affignat Materiam &Formam , femel pro Principiis & iterum pro Caufis Rerum,cum tamenalibi doceat utraqve inter fefe , efle diverfiffima.Ergo fibi ipfi parum conftat.

Deinde in Specie: Materiam primam fic definit: EftSuh*jetttimprimum uniuscujusjj, ex qvo fitaliqvid,cuminftt,nonft-cundum Accidens , (ffi corrumpitur, ad boc ttltimum ftane profi*ciftitur, Alibi nempe 7. Metaph.Cap. 3. eam aliter definit ftc:Materiam dico, qvs. perft ipftam, nec qvid, nec qvantum , neciiliud qvidqvam eorum dicitur, qvibus Ens determinatur. Etpaulb poftfubjungit: necetiam Negationem. Etenim b&c qvo^perAccidens, Alibi Textu 76. iterumait: Materiam efft non Ens perAccidens , qvatenus includit Privationem, at Privationem eftfewonEnsperfte. Vide Morandumin CurfuPhyfiTr, a.deMate-ria,&Tr.4.de Privatione,num. 97.Deniqve alibi vult: EffeSubftantiam, qvidem, fed incompletam, item docet: qvod Mate*ria non (it Corpus, qvod non babeat Entitatem fttam propriam,qvodbabeat ftuam Entitatem a Forma, tanqvam a Conditione jineqva non, qvodpendeat a Forma in ftuo effijtanqvam a Caufafor-mali extrinfeca, qvs. ftt Terminus Relationis MaterisL, qvod Ma~teria naturaliter dari non pojfit fine Forma , qvod ftt pura Po-tentia, qvia caret omni Aclu formali,qvod appetatprimario For-maminCommuni(qvxcftmerumEv,sRationisnon exiftens aPar-te Rei) deinde Formas inparticulari disjunBive nunc banc,nuncillam, qvodnonpojfit fatiariveleffte contenta, unavelaltera For'ma ,ftdcontinub appetat novos Formarum concnbiiw.

Deniqve facit Ariftotcles Materiem efle infatiabilem Lu-pam Meretriciam, qvas vagetur per qvaslibet Formas fe pro-

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