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Quotation from On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle
“for though your coming-to-be presupposes your father's, his coming-to-be does not presuppose yours”
On Generation and Corruption, Book II, ch. 11, trans. H. H. Joachim (1922)
Why human generation forms a line rather than a circle: individuals recur only in species, unlike rain and cloud.
Citation: "for though your coming-to-be presupposes your father's, his coming-to-be does not presuppose yours" — Aristotle, On Generation and Corruption, Book II, ch. 11, trans. H. H. Joachim (1922). (id aristotle-on-generation-and-corruption-q6)
