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Single Idea 12286

[from 'Topics' by Aristotle, in 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential ]

Full Idea

When things are absolutely the same, their coming-into-being and destruction are also the same and so are the agents of their production and destruction.

Gist of Idea

If two things are the same, they must have the same source and origin

Source

Aristotle (Topics [c.331 BCE], 152a02)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics and Topica', ed/tr. Tredennick,H/Foster,ES [Harvard 1960], p.649


A Reaction

Thus Queen Elizabeth II has to be the result of that particular birth, and from those particular parents, as Kripke says? The inverse may not be true. Do twins have a single origin? Things that fission and then re-fuse differently? etc