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Ideas for 'Theaetetus', 'on Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking'' and 'Commentary on Euclid's 'Elements''

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

2060	There seem to be two sorts of change: alteration and motion [Plato]
	Full Idea: There are two kinds of change, I think: alteration and motion.
	From: Plato (Theaetetus [c.368 BCE], 181d)

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

18438	Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine]
	Full Idea: Nothing happens in the world, not the flutter of an eyelid, not the flicker of a thought, without some redistribution of microphysical states.
	From: Willard Quine (on Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking' [1978], p.98)
	A reaction: Is this causation, identity, or baffling supervenience?