back to ideas for this text


Single Idea 2060

[from 'Theaetetus' by Plato, in 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change ]

Full Idea

There are two kinds of change, I think: alteration and motion.

Gist of Idea

There seem to be two sorts of change: alteration and motion

Source

Plato (Theaetetus [c.368 BCE], 181d)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Theaetetus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1987], p.81