 Avempace’s reflections on absolute coming-to-be and passing-away start with a linguistic analysis of the term kawn “coming-to-be” which echoes Alfarabi’s method and itself is a novelty (IB-GC: 41–44). Avempace stresses that coming-to-be is only possible if the metaphysical structure of act and potency are admitted (IB-GC: 46–47).