The Gamma Paradoxes: An Analysis of the Fourth Book of Aristotle's Metaphysics

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The Gamma Paradoxes
The Gamma Paradoxes: An Analysis of the Fourth Book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
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Dedication
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
	The Science of Being
		I.1: The Paradox of Metaphysical Science
		I.2: Non-Demonstrative Science?
		I.3: Patzig’s Puzzle
		I.4: The Unity of Generalis et Specialis Metaphysica
		I.5: The πρὸς ἓν Domain of Scientific Inquiry
		I.6: Challenges for a πρὸς ἓν Domain of Being
		I.7: Substantial and Categorial Ways of Being
		Notes
	Chapter 2
		Contradictions
			II.1: The Indubitability Argument
			II.2: The Clincher
			II.3: The Argument from Monism
			II.3.1: An Addendum
			II.4: The Priority of Assertion
			II.5: The Springs of Action
			II.6: That to which The More and The Less Relate
			II.7: The Usual Suspects
			Notes
	Chapter 3
		Truth, Being, and Perspective
			III.1: Truth, Perspective, and the PNC
			III.2: Cosmology and Contradiction
			III.3: Perception and Relativism
			III.4: Sense and Object
			III.5: The Contrary Counterexample
			III.6: Idealism, Nihilism, or Realism?
			III.7: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Bivalence
			III.8: Aristotle’s Theory of Truth?
			III.9: The Paradox of Future Contingency
			III.10: Prediction, Retro-diction, and Reality
			III.11: Alethic Extremism, Peritrope Considerations, and the Unmoved Mover
			Notes
	Appendix A
		Aristotle and the Liar Paradox
			IV.1: Sources for the Liar Paradox in Antiquity
			IV.2: Sophistical Refutations and the Liar
			IV.3: Secundum Quid et Simpliciter
			IV.4: The Oath Sophism
			IV.5: Aristotle and the Liar Paradox
			IV.6. Crivelli’s Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Solution
			IV.7: Several Objections and a Cost-Benefit Comparison
			IV.8: Wrestling with the Liar
			Notes
	Afterword: The Gamma Paradoxes
	Bibliography
	Index
	About the Author