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Single Idea 1700

[filed under theme 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change ]

Full Idea

There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place. A change in our affections would be an example of alteration.

Gist of Idea

There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place

Source

Aristotle (Categories [c.331 BCE], 15a13)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'Categories and De Interpretatione', ed/tr. Ackrill,J.R. [OUP 1963], p.41

The 41 ideas from 'Categories'

11286 Primary being must be more than mere indeterminate ultimate subject of predication [Politis on Aristotle]
3311 The categories (substance, quality, quantity, relation, action, passion, place, time) peter out inconsequentially [Benardete,JA on Aristotle]
13121 Substance,Quantity,Quality,Relation,Place,Time,Being-in-a-position,Having,Doing,Being affected [Aristotle, by Westerhoff]
16116 Aristotle derived categories as answers to basic questions about nature, size, quality, location etc. [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
16155 Aristotle promoted the importance of properties and objects (rather than general and particular) [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
16154 Aristotle gave up his earlier notion of individuals, because it relied on universals [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
16140 Secondary substances do have subjects, so they are not ultimate in the ontology [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
10965 In earlier Aristotle the substances were particulars, not kinds [Aristotle, by Lawson-Tancred]
16091 Is primary substance just an ultimate subject, or some aspect of a complex body? [Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
11280 Primary being is 'that which lies under', or 'particular substance' [Aristotle, by Politis]
12361 Primary substances are ontological in 'Categories', and explanatory in 'Metaphysics' [Aristotle, by Wedin]
3315 Aristotle denigrates the category of relation, but for modern absolutists self-relation is basic [Benardete,JA on Aristotle]
12349 Only what can be said of many things is a predicable [Aristotle, by Wedin]
8287 Earlier Aristotle had objects as primary substances, but later he switched to substantial form [Aristotle, by Lowe]
21345 Aristotle said relations are not substances, so (if they exist) they must be accidents [Aristotle, by Heil]
11032 Some things said 'of' a subject are not 'in' the subject [Aristotle]
11033 Predications of predicates are predications of their subjects [Aristotle]
11034 The differentiae of genera which are different are themselves different in kind [Aristotle]
11035 There are ten basic categories for thinking about things [Aristotle]
11036 A 'primary' substance is in each subject, with species or genera as 'secondary' substances [Aristotle]
11037 Colour must be in an individual body, or it is not embodied [Aristotle]
11038 We call them secondary 'substances' because they reveal the primary substances [Aristotle]
12351 Genus and species are substances, because only they reveal the primary substance [Aristotle, by Wedin]
12350 Things are called 'substances' because they are subjects for everything else [Aristotle]
11039 A primary substance reveals a 'this', which is an individual unit [Aristotle]
11837 Some predicates signify qualification of a substance, others the substance itself [Aristotle]
1694 Substances have no opposites, and don't come in degrees (including if the substance is a man) [Aristotle]
11040 A single substance can receive contrary properties [Aristotle]
11041 Some quantities are discrete, like number, and others continuous, like lines, time and space [Aristotle]
11042 Parts of a line join at a point, so it is continuous [Aristotle]
1695 Without extensive examination firm statements are hard, but studying the difficulties is profitable [Aristotle]
11043 It is not possible for fire to be cold or snow black [Aristotle]
1696 Change goes from possession to loss (as in baldness), but not the other way round [Aristotle]
1697 The contrary of good is bad, but the contrary of bad is either good or another evil [Aristotle]
1698 Both sides of contraries need not exist (as health without sickness, white without black) [Aristotle]
11044 One is prior to two, because its existence is implied by two [Aristotle]
1699 A thing is prior to another if it implies its existence [Aristotle]
18366 Of interdependent things, the prior one causes the other's existence [Aristotle]
18367 A true existence statement has its truth caused by the existence of the thing [Aristotle]
1700 There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place [Aristotle]
16739 Four species of quality: states, capacities, affects, and forms [Aristotle, by Pasnau]