Or perhaps this rule is not
true in all cases, for almost everybody prefers the present experience
of pleasure to its cessation, so that they would count the activity as
the end rather than its completion.
Again see in some cases if he has failed to distinguish the quantity
or quality or place or other differentiae of an object; e.g. the
quality and quantity of the honour the striving for which makes a
man ambitious: for all men strive for honour, so that it is not enough
to define the ambitious man as him who strives for honour, but the
aforesaid differentiae must be added. Likewise, also, in defining
the covetous man the quantity of money he aims at, or in the case of
the incontinent man the quality of the pleasures, should be stated.
For it is not the man who gives way to any sort of pleasure whatever
who is called incontinent, but only he who gives way to a certain kind
of pleasure. Or again, people sometimes define night as a 'shadow on
the earth', or an earthquake as a movement of the earth', or a cloud
as 'condensation of the air', or a wind as a 'movement of the air';
whereas they ought to specify as well quantity, quality, place, and
cause.
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