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Single Idea 16100
[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Full Idea
In that which underlies a change there is a factor corresponding to the definition [logon] and there is a material factor. When a change is in these constitutive factors there is coming to be or passing away, but in a thing's qualities it is alteration.
Gist of Idea
True change is in a thing's logos or its matter, not in its qualities
Source
Aristotle (Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr) [c.335 BCE], 317a24)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.478
A Reaction
This seems to be a key summary of Aristotle's account of change, in the context of his hylomorphism (form-plus-matter). The logos is the account of the thing, which seems to be the definition, which seems to give the form (principle or structure).
Related Idea
Idea 16101
A change in qualities is mere alteration, not true change [Aristotle]
The
29 ideas
with the same theme
[how existence can persist even when becoming different]:
452
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All our concepts of change and permanence are just names, not the truth
[Parmenides]
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5112
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Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them
[Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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20893
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Nothing comes from non-existence, or passes into it
[Democritus, by Diog. Laertius]
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2063
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How can beauty have identity if it changes?
[Plato]
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2061
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The best things (gods, healthy bodies, good souls) are least liable to change
[Plato]
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2060
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There seem to be two sorts of change: alteration and motion
[Plato]
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1700
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There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place
[Aristotle]
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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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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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16118
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Nature is an active principle of change, like potentiality, but it is intrinsic to things
[Aristotle]
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16115
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Change is the implied actuality of that which exists potentially
[Aristotle]
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22960
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The sophists thought a man in the Lyceum is different from that man in the marketplace
[Aristotle]
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14030
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The totality is complete, so there is no room for it to change, and nothing extraneous to change it
[Epicurus]
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3072
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Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe
[Aurelius]
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17253
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Change is nothing but movement
[Hobbes]
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15200
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How could change consist of a conjunction of changeless facts?
[McTaggart, by Le Poidevin]
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14761
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Change is not just having two different qualities at different points in some series
[McTaggart]
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8198
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A 'Cambridge Change' is like saying 'the landscape changes as you travel east'
[Dummett]
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15261
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Humeans can only explain change with continuity as successive replacement
[Harré/Madden]
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15540
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You can't deny temporary intrinsic properties by saying the properties are relations (to times)
[Lewis]
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15541
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Maybe particles are unchanging, and intrinsic change in things is their rearrangement
[Lowe, by Lewis]
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8281
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Heraclitus says change is new creation, and Spinoza that it is just phases of the one substance
[Lowe]
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4201
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Four theories of qualitative change are 'a is F now', or 'a is F-at-t', or 'a-at-t is F', or 'a is-at-t F'
[Lowe, by PG]
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4202
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Change can be of composition (the component parts), or quality (properties), or substance
[Lowe]
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15858
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Traditionally, the four elements are just what persists through change
[Harte,V]
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12838
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Four-dimensional ontology has no change, since that needs an object, and time to pass
[Simons]
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12842
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There are real relational changes, as well as bogus 'Cambridge changes'
[Simons]
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23783
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Change exists, it is causal, and it needs an explanation
[Williams,NE]
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