Aristotle’s Conception of Ontology

Title page
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction:
The approach to the writings of the Metaphysics......Page 19
1. The traditional approach to the problem
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2. The accounts normally given of the tasks distinctive of ontology
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3. Aristotle's ontology in a historical perspective
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1. Aristotle's account of science in the An. Post.
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2. "There is one science of many things"
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3. Dialectic
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1. The interpretation of Metaphysics A
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2. Role and organization
of the book of aporiai......Page 127
1. The meaning of the expression 'being qua being' as describing the subject matter of ontology
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2. What is the being which is said to be taken qua being?
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3. Is the universality of the science of being qua being intrinsic or consequential?
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4. The principles of being qua being
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5. The properties of being qua being
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6. Being qua being and the senses of being simpliciter
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1. The interpretation of Metaphysics Γ 1
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2. Focal meaning in Metaphysics Γ 2
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3. Forms of being and of one in Metaphysics Γ 2
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4. The interpretation of Metaphysics Γ 2, 1004a2-9
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5. The interpretation of the remaining part of Metaphysics Γ 2
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6. The 'reduction' of entities to oneness and manyness
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7. Dialectic and ontology in Metaphysics Γ 2
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8. The science of being qua being and the treatment of the principle of contradiction (Metaphysics Γ 3-8)
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1. Limitations of the conceptual schemata underlying Aristotle's account of the science of being qua being in Metaphysics Γ
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2. Some problems arising from the treatment of Metaphysics Γ
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1. The science of being qua being in Metaphysics E 1
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(a) The treatment of entities with a claim to substantiality
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(b) The treatment of universals
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(c) The treatment of the categories
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(d) Treatment of the status of other types of entity
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(e) Conclusion and retrospect
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1. The scope of ontology
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2. Articulations of the ontological inquiry
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(a) Ontology versus the particular sciences
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(b) Confirmation of the non-causal character of ontology
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(c) Some other characteristics of the investigation pursued by ontology
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(d) Ontology and the adoption of an ontological system
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4. Actual instances of ontological inquiries in Aristotle
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5. Objections to this sort of account of ontology
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1. Ontology in Metaphysics Ζ
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2. Ontology in Metaphysics M and N and Λ
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3. Ontology in the Physics
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1. Ontology and Theology
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2. Concluding remarks
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Appendix I: On the Authenticity of Metaphysics K
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Appendix II: On the Categoriae
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Index of Proper Names
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