but it also means "opinion."

[Greek: oikonomia] (dispositio, ordo, Cic.) has sometimes the peculiar
sense of artifice, or doing something with an apparent purpose
different from the real purpose.

[Greek: holon, to], the universe, the whole: [Greek: he ton olon physis].

[Greek: onta, ta], things which exist; existence, being.

[Greek: orexis], desire of a thing, which is opposed to [Greek: ekklisis],
aversion.

[Greek: horme], movement towards an object, appetite; appetitio,
naturalis appetitus, appetitus animi (Cic.).

[Greek: ousia], substance (vi. 49). Modern writers sometimes incorrectly
translate it "essentia." It is often used by Epictetus in the same
sense as [Greek: hyle]. Aristotle (Cat. c. 5) defines [Greek: ousia],
and it is properly translated "substantia" (ed. Jul. Pacius).
Porphyrius (Isag. c. 2): [Greek: he ousia anotato ousa to meden pro
autes genos hen to genikotaton].

[Greek: parakolouthetike dynamis, he], the power which enables us
to observe and understand.

[Greek: peisis], passivity, opposed to [Greek: energeia]: also, affect.

[Greek: peristaseis], circumstances, the things which surround
us; troubles, difficulties.

[Greek: pepromene, he], destiny.

[Greek: proairesis], purpose, free will (Aristot. Rhet. i. 13).

[Greek: proaireta, ta], things which are within our will or power.

[Greek: proairetikon, to], free will.

[Greek: prothesis], a purpose, proposition.

[Greek: pronoia] (providentia, Cic.), providence.

[Greek: skopos], object, purpose.

[Greek: stoicheion], element.

[Greek: synkatathesis] (assensio, approbatio, Cic.), assent; [Greek:
synkatatheseis] (probationes, Gellius, xix. 1).

[Greek: synkrimata], things compounded (ii. 3).

[Greek: synkrisis], the act of combining elements out of which
a body is produced, combination.

[Greek: synthesis], ordering, arrangement (compositio).

[Greek: systema], system, a thing compounded of parts which
have a certain relation to one another.

[Greek: hyle], matter, material.

[Greek: hylikon, to], the material principle.

[Greek: hypexairesis], exception, reservation; [Greek: meth'
hypexaireseos], conditionally.

[Greek: hypothesis], material to work on; thing to employ the reason on;
proposition, thing assumed as matter for argument and to lead to
conclusions. (Quaestionum duo sunt genera; alterum infinitum, definitum
alterum. Definitum est, quod [Greek: hypothesin] Graeci, nos