' Suppose louis vuitton illovo, eg that the musical man passed-away and an unmusical man came-tobe prada name card holder, and that the man persists as something identical Now louis vuitton trevi, if 'musicalness and unmusicalness' had not been a property essentially inhering in man, these changes would have been a coming-to-be of unmusicalness and a passing-away of musicalness: but in fact 'musicalness and unmusicalness' are a property of the persistent identity, viz man (Hence, as regards man, these changes are 'modifications'; though, as regards musical man and unmusical man, they are a passing-away and a coming-to-be) Consequently such changes are 'alteration' When the change from contrary to contrary is in quantity, it is 'growth and diminution'; when it is in place, it is 'motion'; when it is in property, ie in quality, it is 'alteration': but, when nothing persists, of which the resultant is a property (or an 'accident' in any sense of the term), it is 'coming-to-be', and the converse change is 'passing-away' 'Matter', in the most proper sense of the term, is to be identified with the substratum which is receptive of coming-to-be and passingaway: but the substratum of the remaining kinds of change is also, in a certain sense, 'matter', because all these substrata are receptive of 'contrarieties' of some kind So much, then, as an answer to the questions (i) whether coming-to-be 'is' or 'is not'-ie what are the precise conditions of its occurrence and (ii) what 'alteration' is: but we have still to treat of growth.
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We must explain (i) wherein growth differs from coming-to-be and from 'alteration', and ii) what is the process of growing and the sprocess of diminishing in each and all of the things that grow and diminish Hence our first question is this: Do these changes differ from one another solely because of a difference in their respective 'spheres' In other words, do they differ because, while a change from this to that (viz from potential to actual substance) is coming-to-be, a change in the sphere of magnitude is growth and one in the sphere of quality is 'alteration'-both growth and 'alteration' being changes from what is-potentially to what is-actually magnitude and quality respectively.
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