Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 342

καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ τινὰ τῶν μερῶν ἔσται τὸ ὅλον. πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ εἰ τινα τῶν μερῶν ὅλον ἐστί, τὰ λειπόμενα οὐκ ἔσται τοῦ ὅλου μέρη, ὅπερ ἄτοπον. εἶτα καὶ περιτραπήσεται ἡ νόησις τοῦ ὅλου. εἰ γάρ τινα τῶν μερῶν ὅλον ἐστί, ψεῦδός ἐστι τὸ ὅτι ὅλον ἐστὶν οὗ μηδὲν ἄπεστι τῶν μερῶν· τινὰ γὰρ ἄπεστιν. ὥστε οὔτε τὶ μέρος ὅλον ἐστὶν οὔτε τινὰ μέρη.

Nor indeed will some of the parts be the whole. For first, if some of the parts are the whole, the remaining ones will not be parts of the whole, which is absurd. Next, the conception of the whole will also be overturned. For if some of the parts are the whole, it is false that the whole is that from which none of the parts is absent, since some are absent. Thus neither one part nor some parts are the whole.

Et certaines parties ne seront pas non plus le tout. Premièrement, si certaines parties sont le tout, les restantes ne seront pas des parties du tout, ce qui est absurde. Ensuite, la notion du tout sera renversée. Car si certaines parties sont le tout, il est faux qu’un tout soit ce à quoi aucune partie ne manque, puisque certaines lui manquent. Ainsi, ni une seule partie ni certaines parties ne sont le tout.