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Single Idea 17042
[filed under theme 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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Full Idea
The obvious difference between natural and non-natural things is that each of the natural ones contains within itself a source of change and of stability, in respect of either movement or increase and decrease or alteration.
Gist of Idea
Natural things are their own source of stability through change
Source
Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 192b14)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Physics', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1996], p.33
A Reaction
This is the reason why Aristotle places so much emphasis on lives, though elements also have persistence in a similar way. We now have atoms and molecules as well.
Related Ideas
Idea 17041
Natural objects include animals and their parts, plants, and the simple elements [Aristotle]
Idea 16508
Things are more unified if the unity comes from their own nature, not from external force [Aristotle]
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[how identity fares when an object's properties change]:
16159
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For animate things, only the form, not the matter or properties, must persist through change
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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16173
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Coming to be is by shape-change, addition, subtraction, composition or alteration
[Aristotle]
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17042
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Natural things are their own source of stability through change
[Aristotle]
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16059
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Change of matter doesn't destroy identity - in Dion and Theon change is a condition of identity
[Chrysippus, by Long/Sedley]
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1330
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If a republic can retain identity through many changes, so can an individual
[Hume]
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1321
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If identity survives change or interruption, then resemblance, contiguity or causation must unite the parts of it
[Hume]
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15220
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To say something remains the same but lacks its capacities and powers seems a contradiction
[Harré/Madden]
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15222
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Some individuals can gain or lose capacities or powers, without losing their identity
[Harré/Madden]
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15296
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A particular might change all of its characteristics, retaining mere numerical identity
[Harré/Madden]
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14737
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Properties cannot be relations to times, if there are temporary properties which are intrinsic
[Lewis, by Sider]
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3309
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If a soldier continues to exist after serving as a soldier, does the wind cease to exist after it ceases to blow?
[Benardete,JA]
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6618
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A 'substance' is a thing that remains the same when its properties change
[Lowe]
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16193
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'Adverbialism' explains change by saying an object has-at-some-time a given property
[Hawley]
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16195
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Presentism solves the change problem: the green banana ceases, so can't 'relate' to the yellow one
[Hawley]
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16202
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The problem of change arises if there must be 'identity' of a thing over time
[Hawley]
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18930
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Change is instantiation of a non-uniform distributional property, like 'being red-then-orange'
[Cameron]
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23018
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How does a changing object retain identity or have incompatible properties over time?
[Baron/Miller]
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