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Single Idea 457
[filed under theme 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
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Full Idea
There is no creation of substance in any one of mortal existence, nor any end in execrable death, but only mixing and exchange of what has been mixed.
Gist of Idea
Substance is not created or destroyed in mortals, but there is only mixing and exchange
Source
Empedocles (fragments/reports [c.453 BCE], B008), quoted by Plutarch - 74: Reply to Colotes 1111f
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.52
A Reaction
also Aristotle 314b08
The
22 ideas
from Empedocles
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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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13209
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There is no coming-to-be of anything, but only mixing and separating
[Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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22765
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Wisdom and thought are shared by all things
[Empedocles]
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21823
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The principle of 'Friendship' in Empedocles is the One, and is bodiless
[Empedocles, by Plotinus]
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Empedocles said that there are four material elements, and two further creative elements
[Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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Empedocles says bone is water, fire and earth in ratio 2:4:2
[Empedocles, by Inwood]
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13207
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Fire, Water, Air and Earth are elements, being simple as well as homoeomerous
[Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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552
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Empedocles said good and evil were the basic principles
[Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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The elements combine in coming-to-be, but how do the elements themselves come-to-be?
[Aristotle on Empedocles]
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13225
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Love and Strife only explain movement if their effects are distinctive
[Aristotle on Empedocles]
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In Empedocles' theory God is ignorant because, unlike humans, he doesn't know one of the elements (strife)
[Aristotle on Empedocles]
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5090
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Maybe bodies are designed by accident, and the creatures that don't work are destroyed
[Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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1524
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For Empedocles thinking is almost identical to perception
[Empedocles, by Theophrastus]
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457
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Substance is not created or destroyed in mortals, but there is only mixing and exchange
[Empedocles]
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589
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'Nature' is just a word invented by people
[Empedocles]
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458
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Nothing could come out of nothing, and existence could never completely cease
[Empedocles]
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460
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If the one Being ever diminishes it would no longer exist, and what could ever increase it?
[Empedocles]
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459
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All change is unity through love or division through hate
[Empedocles]
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461
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God is a pure, solitary, and eternal sphere
[Empedocles]
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462
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One vision is produced by both eyes
[Empedocles]
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1522
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It is wretched not to want to think clearly about the gods
[Empedocles]
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466
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God is pure mind permeating the universe
[Empedocles]
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