Change is the genus of motion/movement. Since movement is found in all of the categories, and since what is in all of the categories must transcend them, then movement transcends the categories and is prior. That leaves only potency and
Book II, Chapter 1 – Nature is an intrinsic principle, art is extrinsic.
In Book II, Aristotle tries to identify the means by which we explain change – causes.
Definition of Nature: It is evident that self generating things have
The basic idea in book one is to find out the number
Chapter 1 – Natural Science
Aristotle lays out his plan for the Physics, though it will only become apparent at the end of the book for the first-time
Defintions
Matter (I)- That out of which something comes to be and which persists in the result
Nature (II) – an intrinsic principle of motion and rest which belongs to the thing essentially((a part of the very constitution of