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    A coherent theory of bodily elements must be understood i... — Carmelics
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    A coherent theory of bodily elements must be understood in terms of the extremes of qualities (hot, cold, wet, dry).

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    • 1.The only coherent way to understand a theory of elements in the body is in terms of the extremes of qualities.
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    • 2.The cosmic elements (fire, earth, air, water) represent the extremes of qualities (e.g., fire is the extreme of hot).
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphic framework treats elemental qualities as relational and gradable, not as fixed extremes anchored to pure cosmic elements.
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    • 2.If qualities admit of degrees and mixtures (as in Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione), then bodily elements are better understood through proportional blending than through polar extremes.
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    • 3.A theory grounded in extremes cannot coherently account for temperate or mixed bodily states without appealing to concepts that undermine the primacy of the extremes themselves.
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    • 1.Asclepiades of Bithynia argued that bodies are constituted by corpuscles and void, making elemental qualities epiphenomenal rather than fundamental to biological explanation.
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    • 2.If the structural arrangement of matter—not qualitative extremes—determines physiological function, then the four-quality framework presupposes rather than grounds a coherent theory of bodily elements.
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    The fundamental constituents or elements (stoicheia) of physical bodies are—theoretically—earth, air, fire and water. However, it is also legitimate to state that the elements are the hot, the cold, the wet and the dry; and indeed it is this latter model which is of the greatest explanatory value for Galen, and which he employs almost universally in his accounts of bodies and their physical change (for example in Temp., and more generally in his work on health, disease and pharmacology). He tend
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