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Aristotle's theory of actuality / Zev Bechler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophyPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (x, 270 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585046069
  • 9780585046068
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Aristotle's theory of actuality.DDC classification:
  • 185 20
LOC classification:
  • B491.N3 B43 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: The Idea of Anti-Informationism -- Ch. 1. Aristotle's Explanation of Natural Motion. 1.1. The natural motion puzzle and the two potentialities. 1.2. The explanation of natural motion. 1.3. Logical causality and teleology -- Ch. 2. Logical Causality and Priority of the Actual: Consequences and Illustrations. 2.1. Coincidence, relationality and the ontology of potentiality. 2.2. The First Mover fiasco. 2.3. Substance and causality. 2.4. Logical determinism. 2.5. The continuum -- Ch. 3. Necessity, Syllogism and Scientific Knowledge. 3.1. Two kinds of necessity. 3.2. Deductive necessity and group inclusion. 3.3. Propositional necessary truth. 3.4. Deductive necessity and the circularity of the syllogism. 3.5. Accepting circularity 1: Syllogistic demonstration. 3.6. Nominalism and Aristotle's essentialism: Seeing the universal. 3.7. Aristotle's demon: Potentiality and the scientific syllogism. 3.8. Accepting circularity 2: Knowing that and what and why.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-258) and indexes.

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Introduction: The Idea of Anti-Informationism -- Ch. 1. Aristotle's Explanation of Natural Motion. 1.1. The natural motion puzzle and the two potentialities. 1.2. The explanation of natural motion. 1.3. Logical causality and teleology -- Ch. 2. Logical Causality and Priority of the Actual: Consequences and Illustrations. 2.1. Coincidence, relationality and the ontology of potentiality. 2.2. The First Mover fiasco. 2.3. Substance and causality. 2.4. Logical determinism. 2.5. The continuum -- Ch. 3. Necessity, Syllogism and Scientific Knowledge. 3.1. Two kinds of necessity. 3.2. Deductive necessity and group inclusion. 3.3. Propositional necessary truth. 3.4. Deductive necessity and the circularity of the syllogism. 3.5. Accepting circularity 1: Syllogistic demonstration. 3.6. Nominalism and Aristotle's essentialism: Seeing the universal. 3.7. Aristotle's demon: Potentiality and the scientific syllogism. 3.8. Accepting circularity 2: Knowing that and what and why.

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