Ideas from 'Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr)' by Aristotle [335 BCE], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Sophistical Refutations, On the Cosmos etc (III)' by Aristotle (ed/tr Forster,E.S. /Furley,D.J.) [Harvard Loeb 1955,0-674-99441-8]].
green numbers give full details |
back to texts
|
expand these ideas
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
|
21360
|
Unobservant thinkers tend to dogmatise using insufficient facts
|
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / c. Potential infinite
|
13212
|
Infinity is only potential, never actual
|
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
|
13221
|
Existence is either potential or actual
|
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change
|
16100
|
True change is in a thing's logos or its matter, not in its qualities
|
|
16101
|
A change in qualities is mere alteration, not true change
|
|
12133
|
If the substratum persists, it is 'alteration'; if it doesn't, it is 'coming-to-be' or 'passing-away'
|
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
|
13213
|
All comings-to-be are passings-away, and vice versa
|
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object
|
12134
|
Matter is the substratum, which supports both coming-to-be and alteration
|
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
|
16572
|
Does the pure 'this' come to be, or the 'this-such', or 'so-great', or 'somewhere'?
|
|
16573
|
Philosophers have worried about coming-to-be from nothing pre-existing
|
|
13214
|
The substratum changing to a contrary is the material cause of coming-to-be
|
|
13215
|
If a perceptible substratum persists, it is 'alteration'; coming-to-be is a complete change
|
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary
|
16717
|
Which of the contrary features of a body are basic to it?
|
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter
|
13216
|
Matter is the limit of points and lines, and must always have quality and form
|
|
17994
|
The primary matter is the substratum for the contraries like hot and cold
|
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances
|
13224
|
There couldn't be just one element, which was both water and air at the same time
|
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
|
16594
|
The Four Elements must change into one another, or else alteration is impossible
|
|
13223
|
Fire is hot and dry; Air is hot and moist; Water is cold and moist; Earth is cold and dry
|
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / g. Atomism
|
13210
|
Wood is potentially divided through and through, so what is there in the wood besides the division?
|
|
13220
|
Bodies are endlessly divisible
|
|
13211
|
If a body is endlessly divided, is it reduced to nothing - then reassembled from nothing?
|
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time
|
13228
|
There is no time without movement
|
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe
|
16595
|
If each thing can cease to be, why hasn't absolutely everything ceased to be long ago?
|
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
|
13227
|
Being is better than not-being
|
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
|
13226
|
An Order controls all things
|