Michael Vogt

In De Generatione et Corruptione (GC) Aristotle distinguishes substantial change, i.e., a coming-to-be or a passing-away of a substance, from all other kinds of accidental change, such as qualitative change, growth and diminution, and locomotion. For all these latter kinds of accidental change, Aristotle explains that there is an underlying substance that persists while its properties undergo changes...