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in the superlunary and sublunary spheres, Aristotle makes clear that any change in the sublunary sphere, i.e. any process of generation as well, is embedded into a larger framework of causal relations in the cosmos and thus cannot be examined in isolation from its different causes. In this way then it has become clear that locomotion in virtue of the fact that all changes that eternal things undergo are locomotions indeed has temporal priority over the other kinds of change in virtue of their being responsible at least partly for the changes that occur in the sublunary sphere. This again has shown that, of the different kinds of change, locomo- tion is the only appropriate candidate for the change that is directly caused by the first unmoved mover. Conclusion 163 ISBN Print: 9783525253069 — ISBN E-Book: 9783647253060 © 2014, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen