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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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