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- noun That which is not a
subject .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And it continues to be a nonsubject with all the front-runners seeking the nomination for president.
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So it follows necessarily from what has been said above that there are only three kinds of change, that from subject to subject, that from subject to non-subject, and that from non-subject to subject: for the fourth conceivable kind, that from non-subject to nonsubject, is not change, as in that case there is no opposition either of contraries or of contradictories.
Physics Aristotle 2002
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‘after’ (meta) something else, that is to say something earlier and something later-that which changes must change in one of four ways: from subject to subject, from subject to nonsubject, from non-subject to subject, or from non-subject to non-subject, where by ‘subject’ I mean what is affirmatively expressed.
Physics Aristotle 2002
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