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To Aristotle, motion is the passage of matter into form, and it is of four kinds:
(1) affecting the substance of a thing, particularly its beginning and its ending;
(2) bringing changes in quality;
(3) bringing changes in quantity;
(4) locomotion, or change of place (most important)
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Aristotle | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophyand function, and nothing is without its purpose. Everywhere we find evidences of design and rational plan. No doctrine of physics can ignore the fundamental notions of motion, space, and time. <span>Motion is the passage of matter into form, and it is of four kinds: (1) motion which affects the substance of a thing, particularly its beginning and its ending; (2) motion which brings about changes in quality; (3) motion which brings about changes in quantity, by increasing it and decreasing it; and (4) motion which brings about locomotion, or change of place. Of these the last is the most fundamental and important. Aristotle rejects the definition of space as the void. Empty space is an impossibility. Hence, too, he disagrees with the view of Plato and the Pythagoreans that the elements are compo Summary
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