2/25/10 Word Post: Change

–verb (used without object)

1. to become different: Overnight the nation's mood changed.

2. to become altered or modified: Colors change if they are exposed to the sun.

3. to become transformed or converted (usually fol. by into): The toad changed into a prince again.

4. to pass gradually into (usually fol. by to or into): Summer changed to autumn.

5. to make a change or an exchange: If you want to sit next to the window, I'll change with you.

6. to transfer between trains or other conveyances: We can take the local and change to an express at the next stop.

7. to change one's clothes: She changed into jeans.

8. (of the moon) to pass from one phase to another.

9. (of the voice) to become deeper in tone; come to have a lower register: The boy's voice began to change when he was thirteen.

Over time everything is bound to change from the way people look to the way that they act. Some have held that change is a consistent process, and rendered so by the existence of time. Others have held that the only way to make sense of change is as an inconsistency. I am trying to show that these inconsistencies can be used to show how people change over time.

“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.”
Christina Baldwin

Mortensen, Chris, 1985, “The Limits of Change,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 63: 1-10.