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Tag Archives: Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Number and Reality 3: The Demonstration That 2 Plus 2 Are 4 Spelled Out
(You will find below the demonstration, promised in the title of this post, that 2 plus 2 are 4. First, however, I have to say something about the post I have been promising, but failing, to publish for some time … Continue reading →
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Tagged After Aristotle, Alfred North Whitehead’s An Introduction to Mathematics, Aristotelianism in the Theory of Numbers, Aristotelianism in the Theory of Universals, Aristotle, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Number and Reality, Ontology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Platonism in the Theory of Numbers, Platonism in the Theory of Universals, Proof That Two Existents Plus Two Existents Are Four Existents, Richard. E. Hennessey
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Aquinas on the First Principles 1
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” 0. This post is the fourth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aristotelianism, Aristotle, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, “Song of Myself”, Dialetheism, First Principles, Francesco Berto, Graham Priest, Heraclitus, Logic, Metaphysics, Principle of Excluded Middle, Principle of Metaphysical Realism, Principle of Non-Contradiction, The Thesis of Metaphysical Pluralism, Thesis of Philosophical Dynamism, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Walt Whitman
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Aquinas’s Argument That One Science Must “Rule” the Others. A Critical Assessment.
0. This post is the second in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. In my immediately previous post, I stated that this post would be focused upon the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aristotle, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Particular Affirmative Propositions, Particular Negative Propositions, Soundness, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, Universal Affirmative Propositions, Validity
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Reading Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. Introduction
One of the greatest works in the history of metaphysics is the Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle of Thomas Aquinas. It is a work that I have longed for decades to read in the sustained and systematic way that … Continue reading →
A Note on Metaphysics, in Partial Response to Peter Hacker’s “Why Study Philosophy?”
0. In “Why study philosophy?,” a note posted to his Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog, Brian Leiter points us to an article, also bearing the title, “Why Study Philosophy,” posted at iai news* and written by Peter Hacker, Emeritus research … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aristotle, Aristotle’s Greek, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Being qua being, Biology, Brian Leiter, Chemistry, Contingent Truths, Empirico-Mathematical Science, Leiter Reports, Metaphysics, Necessary Truths, Ontology, Peter Hacker, Physics, Possible Worlds, Principle of Excluded Middle, Principle of Non-Contradiction, Reflexivity of Identity, Symmetry of Identity, Theory of Identity, Transitivity of Identity
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Reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event 5: Pluth on the Subject of Ontology
0. For all too many weeks now I have been kept away from posting by an upwelling of a variety of matters needing attention, some taken on willingly and some, well, not so much. They have not, however, quite kept … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aristotle, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Being and Event, Being qua being, Ed Pluth, Metaphysics, Modal “Logic, Neo-Aristotelianism, Ontology, Qua, Reduplication, Reflexivity of Identity, The "Logic” of Identity, Theory of the Actual and the Potential, Theory of the Multiple
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After Aristotle 
Touching upon the Theory of Act and Potency
0. I’ll start this post, the sixth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle,* with a brief overview of the posts that have seen the light of … Continue reading →