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Full Idea
Destruction is a dissolution of essence.
Gist of Idea
Destruction is dissolution of essence
Source
Aristotle (Topics [c.331 BCE], 153b30)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics and Topica', ed/tr. Tredennick,H/Forster,ES [Harvard 1960], p.663
A Reaction
[plucked from context!] I can't think of a better way to define destruction, in order to distinguish it from damage. A vase is destroyed when its essential function cannot be recovered.
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