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Aristotle on being as activity

Aryeh Kosman: The activity of being: An essay on Aristotle’s ontology. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2013, 277pp, $45.00 HB

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    Vasilis Politis & Jun Su

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Politis, V., Su, J. Aristotle on being as activity. Metascience 24, 213–218 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-014-9929-0

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