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. (And so are generation and destruction; only, these
are changes into things opposed in certain ways while the other,
movement, is into things opposed in another way.) A thing changes,
then, at the same time from health into illness, and from this
change itself into another. Clearly, then, if it has become ill, it
will have changed into whatever may be the other change concerned
(though it may be at rest), and, further, into a determinate change
each time; and that new change will be from something definite into
some other definite thing; therefore it will be the opposite change,
that of growing well. We answer that this happens only incidentally;
e.g. there is a change from the process of recollection to that of
forgetting, only because that to which the process attaches is
changing, now into a state of knowledge, now into one of ignorance.
Further, the process will go on to infinity, if there is to be
change of change and coming to be of coming to be. What is true of the
later, then, must be true of the earlier; e.g. if the simple coming to
be was once coming to be, that which comes to be something was also
once coming to be; therefore that which simply comes to be something
was not yet in existence, but something which was coming to be
coming to be something was already in existence. And this was once
coming to be, so that at that time it was not yet coming to be
something else
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