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are three kinds of motion-qualitative, quantitative, and local.
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In respect of Substance there is no motion, because Substance has no
contrary among things that are. Nor is there motion in respect of Relation: for
it may happen that when one correlative changes, the other, although this does
not itself change, is no longer applicable, so that in these cases the motion is
accidental. Nor is there motion in respect of Agent and Patient-in fact there
can never be motion of mover and moved, because there cannot be motion of
motion or becoming of becoming or in general change of change.
For in the first place there are two senses in which motion of motion is
conceivable. (1) The motion of which there is motion might be conceived as
subject; e.g. a man is in motion because he changes from fair to dark. Can it
be that in this sense motion grows hot or cold, or changes place, or increases
or decreases? Impossible: for change is not a subject. Or (2) can there be
motion of motion in the sense that some other subject changes from a change
to another mode of being, as e.g. a man changes from falling ill to getting
well? Even this is possible only in an accidental sense. For, whatever the
subject may be, movement is change from one form to another. (And the same
holds good of becoming and perishing, except that in these processes we have
a change to a particular kind of opposite, while the other, motion, is a change
to a different kind.) So, if there is to be motion of motion, that which is
changing from health to sickness must simultaneously be changing from this
very change to another. It is clear, then, that by the time that it has become
sick, it must also have changed to whatever may be the other change
concerned (for that it should be at rest, though logically possible, is excluded
by the theory). Moreover this other can never be any casual change, but must
be a change from something definite to some other definite thing. So in this
case it must be the opposite change, viz. convalescence. It is only accidentally
that there can be change of change, e.g. there is a change from remembering
to forgetting only because the subject of this change changes at one time to
knowledge, at another to ignorance.
In the second place, if there is to be change of change and becoming of
becoming, we shall have an infinite regress. Thus if one of a series of changes
is to be a change of change, the preceding change must also be so: e.g. if
simple becoming was ever in process of becoming, then that which was
becoming simple becoming was also in process of becoming, so that we
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Table of contents
- Part 1; Logic (Organon) 3
- Categories 4
- On Interpretation 34
- Prior Analytics, Book I 56
- Prior Analytics, Book II 113
- Posterior Analytics, Book I 149
- Posterior Analytics, Book II 193
- Topics, Book I 218
- Topics, Book II 221
- Topics, Book III 237
- Topics, Book IV 248
- Topics, Book V 266
- Topics, Book VI 291
- Topics, Book VII 317
- Topics, Book VIII 326
- On Sophistical Refutations 348
- Part 2; Universal Physics 396
- Physics, Book I 397
- Physics, Book II 415
- Physics, Book III 432
- Physics, Book IV 449
- Physics, Book V 481
- Physics, Book VI 496
- Physics, Book VII 519
- Physics, Book VIII 533
- On the Heavens, Book I 570
- On the Heavens, Book II 599
- On the Heavens, Book III 624
- On the Heavens, Book IV 640
- On Generation and Corruption, Book I 651
- On Generation and Corruption, Book II 685
- Meteorology, Book I 707
- Meteorology, Book II 733
- Meteorology, Book III 760
- Meteorology, Book IV 773
- Part 3; Human Physics 795
- On the Soul, Book I 796
- On the Soul, Book II 815
- On the Soul, Book III 840
- On Sense and the Sensible 861
- On Memory and Reminiscence 889
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness 899
- On Dreams 909
- On Prophesying by Dreams 918
- On Longevity and the Shortness of Life 923
- On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 929
- Part 4; Animal Physics 952
- The History of Animals, Book I 953
- The History of Animals, Book II translated 977
- The History of Animals, Book III 1000
- The History of Animals, Book IV 1029
- The History of Animals, Book V 1056
- The History of Animals, Book VI 1094
- The History of Animals, Book VII 1135
- The History of Animals, Book VIII 1150
- The History of Animals, Book IX 1186
- On the Parts of Animals, Book I 1234
- On the Parts of Animals, Book II 1249
- On the Parts of Animals, Book III 1281
- On the Parts of Animals, Book IV 1311
- On the Motion of Animals 1351
- On the Gait of Animals 1363
- On the Generation of Animals, Book I 1381
- On the Generation of Animals, Book II 1412
- On the Generation of Animals, Book III 1444
- On the Generation of Animals, Book IV 1469
- On the Generation of Animals, Book V 1496
- Part 5; Metaphysics 1516
- Part 6; Ethics and Politics 1748
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book I 1749
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book II 1766
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book III 1779
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IV 1799
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book V 1817
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI 1836
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII 1851
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book VIII 1872
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX 1890
- Nicomachean Ethics, Book X 1907
- Politics, Book I 1925
- Politics, Book II 1943
- Politics, Book III 1970
- Politics, Book IV 1997
- Politics, Book V 2023
- Politics, Book VI 2053
- Politics, Book VII 2065
- Politics, Book VIII 2091
- The Athenian Constitution 2102
- Part 7; Aesthetic Writings 2156