452 | All our concepts of change and permanence are just names, not the truth [Parmenides] |
5112 | Empedocles says things are at rest, unless love unites them, or hatred splits them [Empedocles, by Aristotle] |
20893 | Nothing comes from non-existence, or passes into it [Democritus, by Diog. Laertius] |
2063 | How can beauty have identity if it changes? [Plato] |
2061 | The best things (gods, healthy bodies, good souls) are least liable to change [Plato] |
2060 | There seem to be two sorts of change: alteration and motion [Plato] |
1700 | There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place [Aristotle] |
16100 | True change is in a thing's logos or its matter, not in its qualities [Aristotle] |
16101 | A change in qualities is mere alteration, not true change [Aristotle] |
12133 | If the substratum persists, it is 'alteration'; if it doesn't, it is 'coming-to-be' or 'passing-away' [Aristotle] |
16118 | Nature is an active principle of change, like potentiality, but it is intrinsic to things [Aristotle] |
16115 | Change is the implied actuality of that which exists potentially [Aristotle] |
22960 | The sophists thought a man in the Lyceum is different from that man in the marketplace [Aristotle] |
14030 | The totality is complete, so there is no room for it to change, and nothing extraneous to change it [Epicurus] |
3072 | Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe [Aurelius] |
17253 | Change is nothing but movement [Hobbes] |
15200 | How could change consist of a conjunction of changeless facts? [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin] |
14761 | Change is not just having two different qualities at different points in some series [McTaggart] |
8198 | A 'Cambridge Change' is like saying 'the landscape changes as you travel east' [Dummett] |
15261 | Humeans can only explain change with continuity as successive replacement [Harré/Madden] |
15540 | You can't deny temporary intrinsic properties by saying the properties are relations (to times) [Lewis] |
15541 | Maybe particles are unchanging, and intrinsic change in things is their rearrangement [Lowe, by Lewis] |
8281 | Heraclitus says change is new creation, and Spinoza that it is just phases of the one substance [Lowe] |
4201 | 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] |
4202 | Change can be of composition (the component parts), or quality (properties), or substance [Lowe] |
15858 | Traditionally, the four elements are just what persists through change [Harte,V] |
12838 | Four-dimensional ontology has no change, since that needs an object, and time to pass [Simons] |
12842 | There are real relational changes, as well as bogus 'Cambridge changes' [Simons] |
23783 | Change exists, it is causal, and it needs an explanation [Williams,NE] |