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The article as it stands is an essay about a word. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. It could be rewritten into an article about whatever topic or topics the word covers. --Xyzzyplugh 00:41, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, I have altered it considerably. If it is still about a word, that word is of crucial importance in the development of ideas. There are several books written about just this word. Is each such book a dictionary, of a rather limited and restricted sort? No. This article and those books are about a concept.

– Noetica^{♬♩} Talk 23:08, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

What about this word related to physics?...because in this article, there is none mention the word related to physics...che (talk) 08:42, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Che, we have the following text in the article:

Since Aristotle, the physical (the subject matter of physics, properly τὰ φυσικά "natural things") has often been contrasted with metaphysical (the subject of metaphysics), discussed in Aristotle's works so titled, Physics and Metaphysics.

Given its context here, this shows the connection between physis and physics. It includes a link to the article Physics. That article in turn links to this one, and this one provides the etymology that is needed at that article.

–_⊥^{¡ÉɔıʇÇo}Noetica!^T– 09:46, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] physis

wt is mutual force? wt is capacitor?wt do u know about it? capacitance? electomotive force —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.63.226.227 (talk) 19:39, 12 May 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Another article?

There also appears to be a phusis page: are the two translations distinct? Admittedly, my knowledge of ancient Greek is quite embarrassing, so maybe someone more knowledgeable can clarify. Thanks. Krea 15:29, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Ah, Krea. It is exactly the same word. They are just different transcriptions, since the Greek letter Ï… (upsilon) turns up in English as either u or y. (Note hubris and hybrid, also from a single source.) In fact, the form phusis is definitely to be preferred. I contributed to the present article some time ago; but I am now doing very little editing at Wikipedia (for "political" reasons), and will not do this work of merging. But I do propose that this page be merged into phusis. That page should then be expanded and improved. Note that there are redirects to here already in place from ΦÏσις and Φυσις – two ways of representing the original Greek word.– Noetica^{♬♩} Talk 22:00, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Noetica: I suspected that my (very basic) knowledge of ancient Greek (or at least, their alphabet) was not wrong, but I wanted to make sure from someone with more authority on the subject than I. I'll try to sort this merging thing out... Krea 13:53, 16 September 2007 (UTC)