We cannot pass beyond body to
a further kind, as we passed from length to surface, and from surface to body.
For if we could, it would cease to be true that body is complete magnitude. We
could pass beyond it only in virtue of a defect in it and that which is complete
cannot be defective, since it extends in every direction. Now bodies which are
classed as parts of the whole are each complete according to our formula, since
each possesses every dimension. But each is determined relatively to that part
which is next to it by contact, for which reason each of them is in a sense many
bodies. But the whole of which they are parts must necessarily be complete, and
must, as the term indicates, extend in every direction and not just in some.
These are the words by Aristotle...in his book On the Heavens...but i could not understand this para....
It would be gr8 if any1 could help me out....
Thanks in advance!!