Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity

Princeton University Press (1989)
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This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of ...

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9780691020709   0691020701   0691073341

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