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In the Nicoma - chean Ethics (VI. 1140a 11), we are told that “All art is concerned with the realm of coming into being, i.e., with contriving and considering how something which is capable both of being and non-being may come into existence.”
CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968
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Aristotle, from whom the idea originated (Nicoma - chean Ethics 1133a 25-26).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN 1968
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