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1 I, 1 | generate all things out of one thing) are bound to assert that 2 I, 1 | While the substance of the thing remains unchanged, we see 3 I, 1 | with this denial, that each thing once more comes-to-be out 4 I, 2 | in physical actions one thing acts and the other undergoes 5 I, 2 | of the compound-the same thing seems different and conflicting 6 I, 2 | either there is no such thing as coming-to-be at all or 7 I, 2 | They take place when a thing changes, from this to that, 8 I, 2 | passing-away: but when it is in the thing's qualities, i.e. a change 9 I, 2 | qualities, i.e. a change of the thing per accidents, there will 10 I, 2 | association" affect the thing's susceptibility to passing-away. 11 I, 3 | also. For if a substantial thing comes-to-be, it is clear 12 I, 3 | proceed and into which the thing that is passing-away will 13 I, 3 | what is not" is neither a thing, nor possessed of a quality 14 I, 3 | is actually infinite. A thing is infinite only potentially, 15 I, 3 | difference into what the changing thing changes. Perhaps, e.g. the 16 I, 3 | material of the changing thing. For a material, whose constitutive 17 I, 3 | passing-away some other thing's coming-to-be. But the 18 I, 3 | why, although the learning thing is said to "come-to-be-learned" 19 I, 3 | qualification, yet the growing thing is said to "come-to-be".~ 20 I, 3 | coming-to-be" when the thing comes-to-be something in 21 I, 3 | the coming-to-be of one thing is always a passing-away 22 I, 3 | the passing-away of one thing is always another's coming-to-be. 23 I, 3 | without qualification when a thing has passed into what is 24 I, 3 | out of a not-being" when a thing emerges from an imperceptible. 25 I, 3 | a "not-being": so that a thing comes-to-be out of a not-being" 26 I, 4 | as a substratum, and the thing changes as a whole (when 27 I, 4 | contraries) persists, in the thing that has come-to-be, the 28 I, 4 | the same as it was in the thing which has passedaway-if, 29 I, 4 | transparent or cold-the second thing, into which the first changes, 30 I, 5 | that in which the moving thing does so? For that which 31 I, 5 | a whole: but the growing thing changes its place like a 32 I, 5 | the parts of the rowing thing expand over an ever-increasing 33 I, 5 | parts of the diminishing thing contract within an ever-diminishing 34 I, 5 | established elsewhere," that one thing "comes-tobe" (in the unqualified 35 I, 5 | unqualified sense) out of another thing: and further it is true 36 I, 5 | is either (i) an actual thing (which is the same as the 37 I, 5 | the coming-to-be of a hard thing is not a hard thing or specifically, 38 I, 5 | hard thing is not a hard thing or specifically, as e.g. 39 I, 5 | body, for there is no such thing as body in general), this 40 I, 5 | indeed, is why the growing thing must possess some magnitude. 41 I, 5 | every part of the growing thing has increased, and that 42 I, 5 | smaller: also (ii) that a thing grows by the accession, 43 I, 5 | such a way that the growing thing is preserved and persists. 44 I, 5 | persists. For whereas a thing does not persist in the 45 I, 5 | be regarded as growth, a thing might grow without the accession ( 46 I, 5 | process are in the growing thing and in that which is being " 47 I, 5 | growth-that the growing thing persists, that it grows 48 I, 5 | such part-like every other thing which has its form immersed 49 I, 5 | character of that "whereby" a thing grows. Clearly it must be 50 I, 5 | other" than the growing thing. This "actual other", then, 51 I, 5 | contrary, it is the growing thing which has come-to-be flesh ( 52 I, 5 | modified by the growing thing? Perhaps we should say that 53 I, 5 | dwelling in the growing thing that which is actually flesh), 54 I, 5 | together with the growing thing: for if it were apart from 55 I, 6 | have occurred". The hot thing, e.g. would not be cooled 56 I, 6 | not be cooled and the cold thing in turn be warmed: for heat 57 I, 6 | speaking of the "acting" thing too: for the "mover" is 58 I, 6 | sense) and the "acting" thing to "impart motion". Nevertheless 59 I, 7 | be affected by "like", a thing can also be affected by 60 I, 7 | fire heats and the cold thing cools, and in general why 61 I, 7 | in general why the active thing assimilates to itself the 62 I, 7 | immediately next to the moved thing and to the coming-to-be. 63 I, 7 | separate from matter (if such a thing existed) could not suffer 64 I, 9 | instead of the growing thing having changed as a whole, 65 I, 10| it is impossible for one thing to be combined with another. 66 I, 10| perception: and the same thing will be "combined" to one 67 I, 10| is due, and what kind of thing is "combinable". The phenomenon 68 I, 10| combinable with" another thing similarly characterized ( 69 II, 3 | impossible for the same thing to be hot and cold, or moist 70 II, 4 | it is easier for a single thing to change than for many. 71 II, 5 | since in that case the same thing will be simultaneously hot 72 II, 6 | similarly" hot. For the same thing, if it be greater in amount, 73 II, 6 | the excellence" of each thing and its "good": whereas 74 II, 7 | explained above. And when a thing comes-to-be in this manner, 75 II, 9 | Forms", and that "while a thing is said to "be" in virtue 76 II, 10| of the continuity of the thing to which it belongs? But 77 II, 11| foundations have been laid, a thing, which need not always be, 78 II, 11| possibly "not-be". Hence a thing is eternal if its "being" 79 II, 11| the "coming-to-be" of a thing is necessary, its "coming-to-be"