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Things are together in place which are in the primary sensei.e., when they occupy one place to the exclusion of anything else. Cf. Aristot. Phys. 209a 33-b 1. in one place, and separate which are in different places. Contrary in place is that which is at a maximum distance in a straight line.I have transferred this sentence from the end of the section, where it is placed in the text, on the ground that it fits more naturally here. I suspect that it, like the displaced portion of sect. 13, was originally a marginal note which was later inserted in the body of the text, but in the wrong position. Things are said to be in contact whose extremes are together in place. An intermediate is that at which a changing thing which changes continuously in accordance with its nature naturally arrives before it arrives at the extreme into which it is changing. Since all change takes place between opposites, and these are either contraries or contradictories, and contradictories have no middle term, clearly it is to the sphere of contraries that the intermediate belongs.I have followed Prantl’s suggestion in transferring this sentence from the end of sect. 13.
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Successive is that which comes after the beginning (the order being determined by position or form or in some other way) and has nothing of the same class between itself and that which it succeeds; e.g. lines in the case of a line, and units in that of a unit, and a house in the case of a house (but there is nothing to prevent something else from coming between). For that which is successive is a thing which is successive and posterior to some other thing. 1 is not successive to 2, nor is the new mooni.e., the first day of the month. to the second day of the month.
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Contiguous is that which is successive and in contact. The continuous is a species of the contiguous.
