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Article: Explaining an Eclipse: Aristotle's 'Posterior Analytics' 2.1-10.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
- Author:
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The aim of this book is twofold: first, to arrive at a coherent interpretation of Aristotle's account of definition in APo. 2.1-10; and second, to show how what Aristotle says there sheds light on the way in which per se attributes (kath'hauta sumbebekota) belong to their subjects.
Goldin begins by rejecting two recent solutions to the second problem, those proposed by Richard McKirahan (according to whom the attribute is part of the subject's "fat definition") and Michael Ferejohn (who invokes type 4 per se [APo. 73b10ff.]). He goes on in chapter 2 to discuss Aristotle's account of the objects of inquiry in APo. 2.1-2, with an excursus into Metaphysics 7.17 on ...