PHL206H1 Lecture Notes - Liber De Causis, On The Soul, Dialectic
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Text 1: whether the custom of hearing falsehoods makes one believe them: it seems that it does not, because in bk. Therefore, etc: again, custom cannot remove something natural, as aristotle observes when he says that nature does not become accustomed to contraries. But the first principles are naturally known to us, as the commentator intended above. For this reason, to become accustomed to the opposites of those things which appear to us concerning a real thing cannot make us believe them. [on the contrary], aristotle intends the opposite position in the letter of the text. We demand the language we are accustomed to, etc. [response]: i say to this that the custom of hearing falsehoods, even the opposites of those things which are self-evident (per se nota), can cause belief in them. This is what aristotle proves here through its effect.
