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By Lynne Spellman

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ISBN-13: 9780511624872

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There were many fresh books on Aristotle's conception of substance. This one is detailed from earlier efforts in numerous methods. First, it deals a totally new and coherent interpretation of Aristotle's declare that elements are separate: elements turn into specimens of usual varieties. moment, it covers a wide variety of concerns, together with Aristotle's feedback of Plato, his perspectives on numerical sameness and id, his epistemology, and his account of teleology. it's also a dialogue of a lot of the new literature on Aristotle.

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See also Carnap (1947), 98, who gives a clear statement of the principle even though he rejects it. " 5 Quine (1953), 139. REFERENTIAL OPACITY IN ARISTOTLE 23 is accidentally the same as the seated man, but Socrates, and not the seated man, is essentially the same as his essence or form; the builder is a cause of the house, and the musician is not (even if the builder is a musician); the man, but not the pale one, becomes cultured. This list - to which could be added '. . is a substance', '. .

6 But there is also reason to have qualms. At De Interpretatione 1121a 7-14, for example, Aristotle says: 6 In his definition of 'numerical sameness' in Topics I 7, Aristotle distinguishes three senses of the expression, namely, sameness where there is an alternative name or definition ("its most literal and primary use"), second, sameness rendered by a nonessential property peculiar to that kind of thing, and third, sameness drawn from accident, as in describing Socrates as "the creature who is sitting" (103a23-31).

That is, the patient, in a given case, may happen to be a doctor, but having the skills of a doctor is not part of what it is to be a patient. As a consequence, these attributes are not always found together (192b26-27). ) That 'the builder builds' is true in all possible cases of building may seem enough to justify Aristotle's preference. Whether all referentially opaque contexts in Aristotle could be similarly accounted for, however, is surely problematic. Besides, there is also a more serious problem.

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