On Generation and Corruption - A Foundational Work on Change, Nature, Matter, and the Principles of the Physical World

OUR next task is to study coming-to-be and passing-away. We are to distinguish the causes, and to state the definitions, of these processes considered in general-as changes predicable uniformly of all the things that come-to-be and pass-away by nature. Further, we are to study growth and 'alteration'.