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A Note on Aristotle, De Anima, A. 3, 406b1–3
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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Ever since the first edition of the De anima by Trendelenburg, modern scholars have been in trouble as to the exact interpretation of this phrase and especially of the expression 
Although the right one, as we think, was suggested a long time ago by Shorey, a restatement of it seems justified, because the later treatment of the problem in the edition of Sir David Ross has apparently established a different (and, as we believe, a wrong) communis opinio.
The first detailed examination of the whole passage was given by Bonitz, who saw no other possibility of making the text render the required sense than to alter 
This is indeed ‘a rather improbable corruption’. It is also clear that such an emendation of a reading defended by the consensus of all our manuscripts should only be accepted if there really is no other way out.
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page 92 note 1 Shorey, P., ‘Aristotle's De anima’, A.J.Ph. xxii (1901), 149–64 (on the edition and translation of G. Rodier, Paris, 1900).Google Scholar
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page 92 note 6 Ross, 187. The words 
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page 92 note 8 So Simpl., p. 37. 4: 
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page 92 note 9 Hicks, 247.
page 93 note 1 406a4–10.
page 93 note 2 Stating, e.g.. that if the soul does move by its essence and not per accidens, it must have a place 
: 406a14–22.
page 93 note 3 406b3–5.
page 93 note 4 Bonitz's emendation too belongs with this interpretation, for it tries to make Aristotle express more explicitly the same idea.
page 93 note 5 This is actually presented as a new point of view in 406b15 ff.
page 93 note 6 See LSJ, s.v., B. 1. 2: ‘with or without signf. of motion, on, over, throughout a space’.
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connecting it with 
rather than with 
’
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