Michael Wedin argues against the prevailing notion that Aristotle's views on the nature of reality are fundamentally inconsistent. According to Wedin's new interpretation, the difference between the early theory of the Categories and the later theory of the Metaphysics reflects the fact that Aristotle is engaged in quite different projects in the two works--the earlier focusing on ontology, and the later on explanation.
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"Scrupulous...masterful...[this] book deserves an honored place in the literature on Aristotle's metaphysics."--Ancient Philosophy
"Michael Wedin has written the equivalent for Aristotle of what biblical scholars would call a 'harmony of the gospels.' It is a wonderfully rich and argumentatively dense reconstruction of Aristotle's two most important treatises on substance, the Categories and Metaphysics Zeta, works that many of our most able Aristotle scholars have declared irreconcilable....Both the magisterial scope of this fine book and its rich detail are worthy of the great treatises it examines. Since Wedin works out his own positions with explicit and detailed reference to some of the most careful recent scholarship on these works, his book will no doubt be subjected to intense scrutiny and thorough debate. It deserves nothing less."--Journal of the History of Philosophy
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Michael Wedin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.
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nonrecurrent particulars, nonsubstantial individuals, synonymy group, canonical clusters, nonsubstantial items, categorial items, nonsubstantial universals, nonsubstantial particulars, substantial primacy, ontological liberality, probative autonomy, reductio section, weak homonymy, compositional plasticity, formal differentiae, nonsensible substances, coupled items, modular unity, universal compound, ontological configurations, nonsubstantial categories, synonymous predication, metaphysical predication, accidental compounds, categorial statements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Master Argument, New Primacy Passage, End Dilemma, No-Part Argument, Sophisticated Position, Dual Complexity, Posterior Analytics, Distinctness Condition, Young Socrates, Correspondence Thesis, New Primacy Argument, Accident Argument, Elimination Argument, Contra Compositionality Argument, Identification Argument, Kernel Argument, One Horse, Socrates the Younger, Two Horse, Madame Curie, Aristotle of Metaphysics New!
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nonrecurrent particulars, nonsubstantial individuals, synonymy group, canonical clusters, nonsubstantial items, categorial items, nonsubstantial universals, nonsubstantial particulars, substantial primacy, ontological liberality, probative autonomy, reductio section, weak homonymy, compositional plasticity, formal differentiae, nonsensible substances, coupled items, modular unity, universal compound, ontological configurations, nonsubstantial categories, synonymous predication, metaphysical predication, accidental compounds, categorial statements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Master Argument, New Primacy Passage, End Dilemma, No-Part Argument, Sophisticated Position, Dual Complexity, Posterior Analytics, Distinctness Condition, Young Socrates, Correspondence Thesis, New Primacy Argument, Accident Argument, Elimination Argument, Contra Compositionality Argument, Identification Argument, Kernel Argument, One Horse, Socrates the Younger, Two Horse, Madame Curie, Aristotle of Metaphysics New!
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- Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle) by Aristotle on 14 pages
- On The Soul by Aristotle on page 327
- On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle on page 449
- Prior Analytics by Aristotle on page 104
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