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585543
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GB9680195b414762
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GB95T8378b414762
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Bechler, Z
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| Title & Author
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Aristotle's theory of actuality /\ Zev Bechler
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy
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x, 270 pages ;; 25 cm
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0791422399 (alk. paper)
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: 9780791422397 (alk. paper)
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: 0791422402 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780791422403 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-258) and indexes
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| Contents
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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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Aristotle
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Philosophy of nature
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185
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B491.N3B43 1995
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