On Determining What There is: The Identity of Ontological Categories in Aquinas, Scotus and Lowe

Paul Symington

Published by De Gruyter 2010

On Determining What There is

The Identity of Ontological Categories in Aquinas, Scotus and Lowe

Paul Symington

Volume 2 in the series Eide

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110322484

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Generally, categories are understood to express the most general features of reality. Yet, since categories have this special status, obtaining a correct list of them is difficult. This question is addressed by examining how Thomas Aquinas establishes the list of categories through a technique of identifying diversity in how predicates are per se related to their subjects. A sophisticated critique by Duns Scotus of this position is also examined, a rejection which is fundamentally grounded in the idea that no real distinction can be made from a logical one. It is argued Aquinas's approach can be rehabilitated in that real distinctions are possible when specifically considering per se modes of predication. This discussion between Aquinas and Scotus bears fruit in a contemporary context insofar as it bears upon, strengthens, and seeks to correct E. J. Lowe's four-category ontology view regarding the identity and relation of the categories.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER ONE: AQUINAS ON ESTABLISHING THE IDENTITY OF ARISTOTLE’S CATEGORIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
CHAPTER TWO: SCOTUS’S CRITICISM OF AQUINAS’S DERIVATION OF THE CATEGORIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
CHAPTER THREE: A RECONSIDERATION AND DEFENSE OF AQUINAS’S POSITION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
CHAPTER FOUR: LOGICAL SYNTAX AND LOWE’S FOUR-CATEGORY ONTOLOGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 172
Keywords: Duns Scotus; Metaphysik; Ontologie; Philosophie; Thomas von Aquin

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110322484

Hardcover

Published: October 19, 2010
ISBN: 9783110322187