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In the philosophy of Empedocles, on the other hand, it is evident that all the other bodies down to the ‘elements’ have their coming-to-be and their passingaway: but it is not clear how the

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For the passingaway of either ‘element’ produces either the other or the matter.

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

For they must affirm that the underlying something always remains identical and one; and change of such a substratum is what we call ‘altering’ Those, on the other hand, who make the ultimate kinds of things more than one, must maintain that ‘alteration’ is distinct from coming-to-be: for coming-to-be and passingaway result from the consilience and the dissolution of the many kinds.

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

Thus unqualified coming-to-be and passingaway turn out to be different according to common opinion from what they are in truth.

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

For perhaps, if we succeed in clearing up this question, it will simultaneously become clear what account we ought to give of that which perplexed us just now, i.e. of unqualified passingaway and coming-to-be.

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

No transformation, however, into any of the ‘simple’ bodies can result from the passingaway of one elementary quality in each of two ‘elements’ when they are taken in their consecutive order, because either identical or contrary qualities are left in the pair: but no ‘simple’ body can be formed either out of identical, or out of contrary, qualities.

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

‘Matter’, in the most proper sense of the term, is to be identified with the substratum which is receptive of coming-to-be and passingaway: but the substratum of the remaining kinds of change is also, in a certain sense, ‘matter’, because all these substrata are receptive of

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

We have now explained why there is ‘unqualified coming-to-be’ (though it is a passingaway-of-something) and

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

This explains why it is not the primary motion that causes coming-to-be and passingaway, but the motion along the inclined circle: for this motion not only possesses the necessary continuity, but includes a duality of movements as well.

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

‘unqualified’ coming-to-be and passingaway; we have to inquire whether these changes do or do not occur and, if they occur, to explain the precise conditions of their occurrence.

On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002