Single Idea 2060

[catalogued under 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


A Reaction

Idea 1700 is better than this.

Related Idea

Idea 1700 There are six kinds of change: generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place [Aristotle]