# Impermanence

- Id: `impermanence`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/impermanence/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `778246f6e75e570bb43894355e697de21909b015509d4f6d89dd5b22634a8f52`

## Summary

Impermanence holds that conditioned phenomena arise, change, and cease without providing lasting ground.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 3,504 passages across 51 works, including Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma, Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:buddha.samyutta_nikaya:sn55.3",
    "passage:buddha.majjhima_nikaya:mn74",
    "passage:buddha.digha_nikaya:dn34"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "anicca",
    "impermanent",
    "impermanence",
    "changeant"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 51,
    "passages": 3504,
    "thinkers": 16,
    "traditions": 10
}
```

## Related traditions

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        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
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    },
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        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
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    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicureanism",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/epicureanism/"
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    },
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        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
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        "id": "buddha.anguttara_nikaya",
        "title": "Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/anguttara-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.dhammapada",
        "title": "Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/dhammapada/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.digha_nikaya",
        "title": "Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/digha-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.majjhima_nikaya",
        "title": "Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/majjhima-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.samyutta_nikaya",
        "title": "Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/samyutta-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "carneades.ancient_testimonia",
        "title": "Ancient testimonia on Carneades",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/brutus/"
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        "id": "cicero.de_natura_deorum",
        "title": "On the Nature of the Gods",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-natura-deorum/"
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        "id": "epicurus.letter_to_menoeceus",
        "title": "Letter to Menoeceus",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/letter-to-menoeceus/"
    },
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        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
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        "author": "Moses",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/moses/genesis/"
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        "author": "Moses",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/moses/numbers/"
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-protagoras/"
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        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Republic",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
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        "id": "socrates.plato_theaetetus",
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]
```