Change


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1 The nature and reality of change or motion.
2 The unchanging principles of change.
3 The constituents of the changing thing.
4 The factor of opposites or contraries in change.
5 Cause and effect in motion, the relation of mover and moved, or action and passion.
6 Motion and rest, contrary motions.
7 The measure of motion.
8 Time or duration as the measure of motion.
9 The divisibility and continuity of motion.
10 The kinds of change.
11 The reducibility of all modes of motion to one kind of change.
12 The primacy of local motion.
13 Comparison of change in living and nonliving things.
14 Comparison of the motions of matter with changes in the order of mind.
15 The analysis of local motion.
16 Space, place, and void.
17 Natural and violent motion.
18 Kinds of local motion.
19 Rectilinear and rotary or circular motion.
20 Uniform or variable motion.
21 Absolute or relative motion.
22 Terrestrial and celestial motion.
23 The properties of variable motion, the laws of motion.
24 Change of size.
25 The increase and decrease of inanimate bodies.
26 Growth in living organisms.
27 Change of quality.
28 Physical and chemical change, compounds and mixtures.
29 Biological change, vital alterations.
30 Substantial change, generation and corruption.
31 Substantial change in the realm of bodies, the transmutation of the elements.
32 Plant, animal, and human reproduction.
33 The corruptibility or incorruptibility of atoms, the heavenly bodies, and spiritual substances.
34 The apprehension of change, by sense, by reason.
35 Emotional aspect of change.
36 Rest and motion in relation to pleasure and pain.
37 The love and hatred of change and the unchanging.
38 The problem of the eternity of motion or change.
39 The theory of the prime mover, the order and hierarchy of movers and moved.
40 The immutable.
41 The immutability of the objects of thought, the realm of truth..
42 The unalterability of the decrees of fate.
43 The immutability of God.


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