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Although it is not so obvious in the case of a living being, whose proximate matter is already very highly structured, beneath the proximate matter will lie non-proximate matter which can then be only contingently enformed.
The material principles of the syllogism are the three terms (remote matter)—the two extremes (major, minor) and the middle combined into two premises (proximate matter).
Aristotle concludes (1045b17 21) that "the proximate matter and the form are one and the same thing, the one potentially, and the other actually... the potential and the actual are somehow one".
This sort of matter, the form-dependent matter, Aristotle regards as proximate matter (Met. 1038b6, 1042b10), thus extending the notion of matter beyond its original role as metaphysical substrate.
Thus, for example, while bricks and mortar are the proximate matter of the house, the clay which is the matter of the bricks is also, though non-proximately, the matter of the house, since it was used as the matter for the formation of the bricks.
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Non-proximate matter is the matter which undergirds the matter actually used in the generation of some compound, even if it is not actually present or discernible in that compound.
Certain properties of cilia arrays, such as beating synchronisation and manipulation of external proximate particulate matter, are considered emergent, but remain incompletely characterised despite these phenomena having being the subject of extensive modelling.
Twenty miles of water does not sever England from the proximate continent, no matter what the Brexit vote appears to signify.
Table 1 Formulation and proximate composition (dry matter basis) of feed used in the study Composition (g kg−1) dry feed Ingredients Cotton seed cake meal 683.40 Maize bran meal 316.60 Total 1,000.00 Proximate analysis of feed Dry matter 924.70 Crude protein 297.50 Crude fibre 136.70 Crude fat 109.60 Ash 68.10 Carbohydrate 388.10.
The study was carried out to examine growth, shoot yield, dry matter and proximate composition of Amaranthus cruentus on poor soil augmented with compost or AMF either singly or in combination.
Proximate composition (% of dry matter) of GW was analyzed by the standard methods of AOAC (2005), giving a protein content of 12.7 ± 2.6 %, a lipid content of 2.4 ± 0.2 %, an ash content of 32.4 ± 7.6, a fiber content of 4.5 ± 1.1 %, and a carbohydrate content of 47.9 ± 6.7%%.
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