PHL202H5 Lecture : PHL202 - Aristotle’s Physics I.docx
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Physics interested in natural objects: inquiry into things we see around us, things that aren"t created by human beings, how they are perceived in the world. How they are acquire and how they change. We see that change is a difficult concept to grasp. Parmenides if they already were than how did they change to be what it is. Nothing can come to be from what is not now: we can"t think nor speak of what is not. Not possible to think of change unless it is possible to think of generation. Change can be thought of here as socrates coming to be musical or pale. Change is unthinkable/incomprehensible despite our perceptions of the world being full of change we are wrong about that. Change involves the coming-to-be or ceasing-to-be contraries. Multi-faceted beings we can be pale and musical at the same thing: if we say pale tan.
