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physis
[ fahy-sis ]
noun
, plural phy·ses [fahy, -seez].
- the principle of growth or change in nature.
- nature as the source of growth or change.
- something that grows, becomes, or develops.
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Another—It is all physiological units: but his reason asks—What is the “physis,” the nature and innate tendency of the units?
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Another: It is all physiological units; but his reason asks: What is the “physis,” the nature and “innate tendency” of the units?
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Phlegmatos d' ouden epoisen h physis organon kathartikon, hoti psychron kai hygron esti kai hoion hmipeptos tis troph.
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Founded by the philosophers upon nature (physis) it was physical.
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Greatest, said Galen, is the Physis, and Hippocrates is its prophet.
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