The Academy and the Lyceum are places, and parts of Place, just as "above," "below," "here" are species or parts of Place; the difference is of minuter delimitation. If then "above," "below," "the middle" are places- Delphi, for example, is the middle - and "near-the-middle" is also a place- Athens, and of course the Lyceum and the other places usually cited, are near the middle- what need have we to go further and seek beyond Place, admitting as we do that we refer in every instance to a place? If, however, we have in mind the presence of one thing in another, we are not speaking of a single entity, we are not expressing a single notion. Another consideration: when we say that a man is here, we present a relation of the man to that in which he is, a relation of the container to the contained. Why then do we not class as a relative whatever may be produced from this relation? Besides, how does "here" differ from "at Athens"? The demonstrative "here" admittedly signifies place; so, then, does "at Athens": "at Athens" therefore belongs to the category of Place. Again, if "at Athens" means "is at Athens," then the "is" as well as the place belongs to the predicate; but this cannot be right: we do not regard "is a quality" as predicate, but "a quality." Furthermore, if "in time," "in place" are to be ranged under a category other than that applying to time and place, why not a separate category for "in a vessel"? Why not distinct categories for "in Matter," "in a subject," "a part in a whole," "a whole in its parts," "a genus in its species," "a species in a genus"? We are certainly on the way to a goodly number of categories.

For how can it be in a place, when it contemplates every place? (37) But we are able to mention what is more exalted than this: for do not think in yo...

Hence, through these things such a corporeal-formed division as you introduce, is demonstrated to be false. It is, indeed, especially necessary not...

According to another concept of the ancient wisdom, all bodies--whether spiritual or material--have three centers, called by the Greeks the upper...

Then it is to be inquired whether the proposition belongs to those points, which are considered in relation to others, or is taken by itself....

Of things stated, some are stated without connection; as, for example, "man" and "runs," and whatever does not complete a sentence, which is either...

According to which principle, causes belong to the class of predicates (kathgorhmatwn), or, as others say, of dicta (lektwn) (for Cleanthes and...

Therefore, it must be said that the first--which is considered as being above--is actually in the center, while both of the others (which are said to ...

And of those things that are classed under the ten Categories, some are predicated by themselves (as the nine Categories), and others in relation to s...

Timaeus: of all those which we indicate by using the terms “this” and “that” and suppose ourselves to refer to a definite object. For such an object...

Now some of the things said should bear a sense peculiar to themselves. So understand, for instance, what I'm going to say. All are in God, [but] not...

Timaeus: this is a wholly erroneous supposition For inasmuch as the whole Heaven is spherical, all its outermost parts, being equally distant from...

Wherefore, its bottom, or its [lowest] part, if [such a] place there be within a sphere, is called in Greek a-eidēs ; since that eidein in Greek...

Timaeus: both one and two. Let this, then, be, according to my verdict, a reasoned account of the matter summarily stated,—that Being and Place and...

Now when I write here concerning the midst or centre, that the fountain of the divine birth or geniture is in the midst or centre, the meaning is not...

These frame atoms, sensible forms, corporeal bodies, and things destined to matter.

Yes. And does not the same principle hold in the sciences? The object of science is knowledge (assuming that to be the true definition), but the objec...

The space, room or place of this world, together with the creaturely heaven, which we behold with our eyes, as also the space or place of the earth...

The species is always contemplated in a part. On the other hand, however, if a thing is part of another, it will not be also a species. For the hand...

Timaeus: that they all interchange their places; for while the bulk of each Kind keeps apart in a region of its own because of the motion of the...