Relative change /
A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Relative change is puzzling because the following three propositions each seem true but cannot be true together. No relative changes are int...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in ancient philosophy.
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| Summary: | A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Relative change is puzzling because the following three propositions each seem true but cannot be true together. No relative changes are intrinsic changes. Only intrinsic changes are proper changes. Some relative changes are proper changes. Plato's Theaetetus and Phaedo property relative change. I argue that these dialogues assume relative changes to be intrinsic changes, so denying Aristotle responds differently, by denying that relative change is proper change. The Stoics claimed that some nonintrinsic changes are changes. Finally, I discuss Sextus' argument that relative change shows that there are no relatives at all. |
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| Physical Description: | 63 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [60]-63). |
| ISBN: | 1108713424 9781108713429 |