Color, Transparency, and Light in Aristotle

Phronesis 63 (2):209-210 (2018)
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_ Source: _Volume 63, Issue 2, pp 209 - 210 Aristotle says that it is in the nature of color to impart movement to transparent media. Typically this is interpreted as implying that these media must be transparent before color moves them. I argue that this is a mistake.

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Sean Kelsey
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Aristotle on the Sense-Organs.T. K. Johansen - 1997 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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