On Generation and Corruption

by Aristotle, Aristotle, Aristotle

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Our next task is to study coming-to-be and passing-away. We are to distinguish the causes, and to state the definitions, of these processes considered in general-as changes predicable uniformly of all the things that come-to-be and pass-away by nature. Further, we are to study growth and 'alteration'. We must inquire what each of them is; and whether 'alteration' is to be identified with coming-to-be, or whether to these different names there correspond two separate processes with distinct natures.… (more)

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This was a fairly standard text of Plato. Nothing really stood out that much to me. (

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This was a fairly standard text of Plato. Nothing really stood out that much to me. (

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DanielSTJ | Dec 20, 2018 |

Here we see the full consideration of whether things come-to-be and pass-away or are altered from some other state. He refutes the previous assertion by Empodocles that the 4 elements are equal yet not combined. He claims and subsequent support that substance is made of real elements which at some point cannot be further divided, that these elements are combined, and that they are necessary for existence and cyclical in process. (

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On Generation and Corruption

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Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς

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De Generatione et Corruptione

On Coming to Be and Passing Away

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Our next task is to study coming-to-be and passing-away. We are to distinguish the causes, and to state the definitions, of these processes considered in general-as changes predicable uniformly of all the things that come-to-be and pass-away by nature. Further, we are to study growth and 'alteration'. We must inquire what each of them is; and whether 'alteration' is to be identified with coming-to-be, or whether to these different names there correspond two separate processes with distinct natures.

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