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Aristotle
On the Generation and Corruption

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necessary

   Book, Paragraph
1 I, 2 | up" cannot proceed. The necessary consequence-especially if 2 I, 7 | movers" this is actually necessary) although the last mover 3 I, 8 | maintain, it is equally necessary to deny the existence of 4 I, 8 | of it will be void. It is necessary, therefore, for his "contiguous 5 I, 8 | just raised confronts, as a necessary consequence, all who advocate " 6 I, 10| combined" without its being necessary either that they should 7 II, 10| motion not only possesses the necessary continuity, but includes 8 II, 11| any whose future being is necessary; or whether, on the contrary, 9 II, 11| coming-to-be will not be necessary.~Then are all the things 10 II, 11| contrary, is it absolutely necessary for some of them to come-to-be? 11 II, 11| not-be"? For instance, is it necessary that solstices shall come-to-be, 12 II, 11| answer seems to be that the necessary nexus no longer holds, unless 13 II, 11| longer holds, unless it is "necessary" for the consequent (as 14 II, 11| it. If, therefore, it is necessary that the consequent should 15 II, 11| consequent was assumed as necessary. Hence, in any sequence, 16 II, 11| being of the consequent is necessary, the nexus is reciprocal-in 17 II, 11| but only conditionally, necessary. For it will always be necessary 18 II, 11| necessary. For it will always be necessary that some other member shall 19 II, 11| member which will make it "necessary" for the remaining members 20 II, 11| that it is "absolutely necessary" for any one of them to 21 II, 11| e.g. that "it is absolutely necessary for a house to come-to-be 22 II, 11| for (unless it is always necessary for a house to be coming-to-be) 23 II, 11| its coming-to-be is to be "necessary", it must be "always" in 24 II, 11| eternal if its "being" is necessary: and if it is eternal, its " 25 II, 11| eternal, its "being" is necessary. And if, therefore, the " 26 II, 11| coming-to-be" of a thing is necessary, its "coming-to-be" is eternal; 27 II, 11| eternal; and if eternal, necessary.~It follows that the coming-to-be 28 II, 11| anything, if it is absolutely necessary, must be cyclical-i.e. must 29 II, 11| source" (if it is to be necessary and therefore eternal), 30 II, 11| By this I mean that the necessary occurrence of "this" involves 31 II, 11| occurrence of "this" involves the necessary occurrence of its antecedent: 32 II, 11| the antecedent, it is also necessary for the consequent to come-to-be. 33 II, 11| coming-to-be that the "absolutely necessary" is to be found. In other 34 II, 11| things is cyclical, it is "necessary" that each of them is coming-to-be 35 II, 11| coming-to-be of any things is "necessary", their coming-to-be is


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