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Single Idea 13213
[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
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Full Idea
Every coming-to-be is a passing away of something else and every passing-away some other thing's coming-to-be.
Gist of Idea
All comings-to-be are passings-away, and vice versa
Source
Aristotle (Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr) [c.335 BCE], 319a07)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.483
A Reaction
This seems to be the closest that Aristotle gets to sympathy with the Heraclitus view that all is flux. When a sparrow dies and disappears, I am not at all clear what comes to be, except some ex-sparrow material.
The
25 ideas
from 'Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr)'
21360
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Unobservant thinkers tend to dogmatise using insufficient facts
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13210
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Wood is potentially divided through and through, so what is there in the wood besides the division?
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13211
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If a body is endlessly divided, is it reduced to nothing - then reassembled from nothing?
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16100
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True change is in a thing's logos or its matter, not in its qualities
[Aristotle]
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16101
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A change in qualities is mere alteration, not true change
[Aristotle]
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16572
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Does the pure 'this' come to be, or the 'this-such', or 'so-great', or 'somewhere'?
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16573
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Philosophers have worried about coming-to-be from nothing pre-existing
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16595
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If each thing can cease to be, why hasn't absolutely everything ceased to be long ago?
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13212
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Infinity is only potential, never actual
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13213
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All comings-to-be are passings-away, and vice versa
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13214
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The substratum changing to a contrary is the material cause of coming-to-be
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12133
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If the substratum persists, it is 'alteration'; if it doesn't, it is 'coming-to-be' or 'passing-away'
[Aristotle]
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13215
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If a perceptible substratum persists, it is 'alteration'; coming-to-be is a complete change
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12134
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Matter is the substratum, which supports both coming-to-be and alteration
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13216
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Matter is the limit of points and lines, and must always have quality and form
[Aristotle]
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13220
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Bodies are endlessly divisible
[Aristotle]
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13221
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Existence is either potential or actual
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17994
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The primary matter is the substratum for the contraries like hot and cold
[Aristotle]
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16717
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Which of the contrary features of a body are basic to it?
[Aristotle]
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16594
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The Four Elements must change into one another, or else alteration is impossible
[Aristotle]
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13223
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Fire is hot and dry; Air is hot and moist; Water is cold and moist; Earth is cold and dry
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13224
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There couldn't be just one element, which was both water and air at the same time
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13226
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An Order controls all things
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13227
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Being is better than not-being
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13228
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There is no time without movement
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