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Another topic is that from enumerating the
parts, as in the Topics: What kind of movement is the soul? for
it must be this or that.1 There is an instance of this in the Socrates
of Theodectes: “What holy place has he profaned? Which of the gods
recognized by the city has he neglected to honor?”
1 If the genus can be affirmed of any subject, then one or other of the species, which make up the genus, must also be predicable of it. If the proposition to be maintained is, the soul is moved, it is necessary to examine whether any of the different kinds of motion （increase, decrease, decay, change of place, generation, alteration） can be predicated of the soul. If not, the generic predicate is not applicable, and the proposition is refuted.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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