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Ofthingswhichchange，somechangeinanaccidentalsense，like
thatinwhich’themusical’maybesaidtowalk，andothersare
said，withoutqualification，tochange，becausesomethinginthem
changes，i。e。thethingsthatchangeinparts；thebodybecomes
healthy，becausetheeyedoes。Butthereissomethingwhichisby
itsownnaturemoveddirectly，andthisistheessentiallymovable。
Thesamedistinctionisfoundinthecaseofthemover；forit
causesmovementeitherinanaccidentalsenseorinrespectofa
partofitselforessentially。Thereissomethingthatdirectlycauses
movement；andthereissomethingthatismoved，alsothetimeinwhich
itismoved，andthatfromwhichandthatintowhichitismoved。
Buttheformsandtheaffectionsandtheplace，whicharethe
terminalsofthemovementofmovingthings，areunmovable，e。g。
knowledgeorheat；itisnotheatthatisamovement，butheating。
Changewhichisnotaccidentalisfoundnotinallthings，butbetween
contraries，andtheirintermediates，andbetweencontradictories。We
mayconvinceourselvesofthisbyinduction。
Thatwhichchangeschangeseitherfrompositiveintopositive，
orfromnegativeintonegative，orfrompositiveintonegative，or
fromnegativeintopositive。(BypositiveImeanthatwhichis
expressedbyanaffirmativeterm。)Thereforetheremustbethree
changes；thatfromnegativeintonegativeisnotchange，because
(sincethetermsareneithercontrariesnorcontradictories)there
isnoopposition。Thechangefromthenegativeintothepositivewhich
isitscontradictoryisgeneration-absolutechangeabsolute
generation，andpartialchangepartialgeneration；andthechangefrom
positivetonegativeisdestruction-absolutechangeabsolute
destruction，andpartialchangepartialdestruction。If，then，’that
whichisnot’hasseveralsenses，andmovementcanattachneitherto
thatwhichimpliesputtingtogetherorseparating，nortothatwhich
impliespotencyandisopposedtothatwhichisinthefullsense
(true，thenot-whiteornot-goodcanbemovedincidentally，forthe
not-whitemightbeaman；butthatwhichisnotaparticularthing
atallcaninnowisebemoved)，thatwhichisnotcannotbemoved
(andifthisisso，generationcannotbemovement；forthatwhichis
notisgenerated；forevenifweadmittothefullthatitsgeneration
isaccidental，yetitistruetosaythat’not-being’ispredicableof
thatwhichisgeneratedabsolutely)。Similarlyrestcannotbelong
tothatwhichisnot。Theseconsequences，then，turnouttobe
awkward，andalsothis，thateverythingthatismovedisinaplace，
butthatwhichisnotisnotinaplace；forthenitwouldbe
somewhere。Norisdestructionmovement；forthecontraryofmovement
isrest，butthecontraryofdestructionisgeneration。Sinceevery
movementisachange，andthekindsofchangearethethreenamed
above，andofthesethoseinthewayofgenerationanddestructionare
notmovements，andthesearethechangesfromathingtoits
contradictory，itfollowsthatonlythechangefrompositiveinto
positiveismovement。Andthepositivesareeithercontraryor
intermediate(forevenprivationmustberegardedascontrary)，and
areexpressedbyanaffirmativeterm，e。g。’naked’or’toothless’or
Ifthecategoriesareclassifiedassubstance，quality，place，
actingorbeingactedon，relation，quantity，theremustbethree
kindsofmovement-ofquality，ofquantity，ofplace。Thereisno
movementinrespectofsubstance(becausethereisnothingcontraryto
substance)，norofrelation(foritispossiblethatifoneoftwo
thingsinrelationchanges，therelativetermwhichwastrueofthe
otherthingceasestobetrue，thoughthisotherdoesnotchangeat
all，-sothattheirmovementisaccidental)，norofagenta
