CLST 214 Lecture 9: CLST 214 - Week 3 Lect 3
31 Oct 2017
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What is change": parmenides nothing can change, all change is an illusion , for aristotle, change becomes reconceptualized, not as not from not-x . Lizard from a not-lizard: instead, it now becomes from potential to actual . Everything that exists is a combination of form and matter: podium is made out of the same material as the table but they"re different shapes and they have different functions. Form: shape and properties: for aristotle, forms only exist insofar as they are instantiated in matter. Pianos only exist in their shape, not without their shape: matter itself has no properties apart from its form, and matter cannot exist without form. Anything that exists has a form or it doesn"t exist. Colour: red is something we pull out of the world, and nothing is red without matter. In order to understand change, we can think about the natures of things,w here we recall that nature is de ned by aristotle as:
