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Single Idea 16101
[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
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Full Idea
When a change occurs in the qualities [pathesi] and is accidental [sumbebekos], there is alteration (rather than true change).
Gist of Idea
A change in qualities is mere alteration, not true change
Source
Aristotle (Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr) [c.335 BCE], 317a27)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.478
A Reaction
[tr. partly Gill] Aristotle doesn't seem to have a notion of 'properties' in quite our sense. 'Pathe' seems to mean experienced qualities, rather than genuine causal powers. Gill says 'pathe' are always accidental.
Related Idea
Idea 16100
True change is in a thing's logos or its matter, not in its qualities [Aristotle]
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[how existence can persist even when becoming different]:
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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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