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Single Idea 457

[catalogued under 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object]

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 Reference

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.52


A Reaction

also Aristotle 314b08