Book I
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Book I is the opening section of Aristotle’s treatise "On Generation and Corruption," where he lays out the fundamental principles and problems concerning change, coming-to-be, and passing-away in the natural world.
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| Book I canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4986461 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Book I Context triple: [On Generation and Corruption, structure, Book I]
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Book I
Book I is the first section of Hugo Grotius’s seminal work *De iure belli ac pacis*, in which he lays out the foundational principles of natural law and just war theory.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of Augustine’s monumental Christian philosophical work *The City of God*, in which he begins responding to pagan criticisms of Christianity after the sack of Rome.
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Book I
Book I of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics introduces the work’s central inquiry into the nature of human happiness (eudaimonia) and the highest good.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of Aristotle’s biological treatise "Generation of Animals," where he lays out foundational theories on reproduction and the development of living beings.
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Book I
Book I is the first major section of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophical work *The Life Divine*, laying out the foundations of his integral metaphysical and spiritual vision.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Book I Target entity description: Book I is the opening section of Aristotle’s treatise "On Generation and Corruption," where he lays out the fundamental principles and problems concerning change, coming-to-be, and passing-away in the natural world.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of Aristotle’s biological treatise "Generation of Animals," where he lays out foundational theories on reproduction and the development of living beings.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of Aristotle’s treatise *Rhetoric*, in which he lays out the fundamental principles and purposes of persuasive speech.
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Book I
Book I of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics introduces the work’s central inquiry into the nature of human happiness (eudaimonia) and the highest good.
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Book I
Book I is the opening section of Nicolaus Copernicus’s "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium," where he lays out the foundational principles of his heliocentric model of the cosmos.
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Book I
Book I is the first section of Isaac Newton’s *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*, laying out the mathematical foundations of classical mechanics and the laws of motion.
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Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book of a treatise
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philosophical work section ⓘ |
| addressesProblem |
conditions for genuine coming-to-be
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continuity and discontinuity in change ⓘ distinction between alteration and generation ⓘ how things cease to exist ⓘ how things come into existence ⓘ relation between qualitative and substantial change ⓘ role of underlying subject in change ⓘ |
| ancientTitle | Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, Αʹ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Aristotle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonicalDivision | first of two books in On Generation and Corruption ⓘ |
| clarifiesConcept |
alteration
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contraries ⓘ corruption (substantial passing-away) ⓘ generation (substantial coming-to-be) ⓘ potentiality and actuality in change ⓘ underlying subject (hypokeimenon) ⓘ |
| discipline | Aristotelian natural science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| examines |
pre-Socratic theories of coming-to-be and passing-away
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views of earlier natural philosophers ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| influenced |
later theories of substance and change
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medieval natural philosophy ⓘ scholastic discussions of matter and form ⓘ |
| languageOfComposition | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
change
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coming-to-be (generation) ⓘ contraries and their role in change ⓘ elements and their transformations ⓘ matter and form in change ⓘ natural change ⓘ passing-away (corruption) ⓘ principles of physical reality ⓘ |
| partOf | On Generation and Corruption NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalApproach | hylomorphism ⓘ |
| philosophicalDomain |
metaphysics of change
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natural philosophy ⓘ philosophy of nature ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Peripatetic school NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | Ancient Greek philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Metaphysics (Aristotle)
NERFINISHED
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On the Heavens (Aristotle) NERFINISHED ⓘ Physics (Aristotle) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setsUp | detailed elemental theory in Book II (On Generation and Corruption) ⓘ |
| structureRole | foundational exposition of principles for the treatise ⓘ |
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Subject: Book I Description of subject: Book I is the opening section of Aristotle’s treatise "On Generation and Corruption," where he lays out the fundamental principles and problems concerning change, coming-to-be, and passing-away in the natural world.
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subject surface form:
On Generation and Corruption