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Substances, Accidents, And Kinds: Some Remarks On Aristotle's Theory Of Predication, Frank A. Lewis
Substances, Accidents, And Kinds: Some Remarks On Aristotle's Theory Of Predication, Frank A. Lewis
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
A major feature of Aristotle's strategy against Plato in the Categories is to collapse the dichotomy that Plato's theory of (metaphysical) predication attempts to make between forms and sensibles. In Aristotle's theory, Socrates IS some of his predicables, but HAS others. He IS what is essential to him, and HAS the rest. These different relations between Socrates and his various predicables form a large part of the motivation for the further ontological distinctions that Aristotle draws in the Categories.
Predication And Immanence: Anaxagoras, Plato, Eudoxus, And Aristotle, Russell M. Dancy
Predication And Immanence: Anaxagoras, Plato, Eudoxus, And Aristotle, Russell M. Dancy
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
A theory of predication invokes immanence if it explains why snow is white by introducing something that is in snow that accounts for its being white. Aristotle's theory of predication in the Categories is partly immanentist, see Cat. 2, 1a24-25. My object here is to shed some indirect light on this passage. I suggest that the comment is a disclaimer responding to an immanentist theory of predication under discussion in the Academy, according to which the something that is immanent in snow that makes it white is a physical ingredient. This theory was an idea of Eudoxus'. Aristotle was sympathetic …
Is Αγαθον A Pros Hen Equivocal In Aristotle's Ethics?, Lawrence Jost
Is Αγαθον A Pros Hen Equivocal In Aristotle's Ethics?, Lawrence Jost
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Is agathon a pros hen equivocal? EN does not unambiguously endorse this idea, and it is difficult to defend. EE remains silent on the question.