The second figure of syllogism, i.e. the form of syllogism in which the middle term occurs as predicate in both of the premises. The odour of a smelling object gets mixed with the air around it, which thus assumes the quality of that odour. This air naturally inhaled by us reaches, through the nasal passages the above-mentioned two protruding lumps of the front brain, which, stimulated by this air, give us the smell sensation. This power is stronger in animals than in men. At the end of the series of emanations is found matter.
Man is partly in the realm of spirit and partly in the sphere of matter.
All this and more was incorporated by the Muslim philosophers in one way or the other in the development of their own philosophical systems. Aflatuniyat al-Muhathah .