From Aristotle:
The Parmenidean problem: how can being (musical) arise from not-being (not-musical)? The answer: Aristotle’s theory of Potentiality and Actuality
Kinds of change (everything fits into these two):
- Qualified coming to be:
- linuistically: the verb is always transitive, i.e. incomplete unless we specify what the subject is coming to be
- mataphysically: always occurs with respect to a non-substantial category
- Alteration
- Locomotion
- Unqualified coming to be
- linguistically: the verb is intransitive
- metaphysically: Always a change in the category of substances. A new substance comes to be that wasn’t before
Two claims
- Coming to be requires an underlying subject
- In the process of changing, one part survives and the other does not