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Article: Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy of Measure and the International System of Units (SI).
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
- Author:
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Crowley, Charles Bonaventure, O.P. Edited with a prescript by Peter A. Redpath. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1996. liii + 264 pp. Cloth, $48.00--This most unusual book consists of a 35 page prescript by the editor followed by the text in which the author seeks to show that the International System of Units, which is under the supervision of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, depends upon Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy. Specifically, this means the traditional philosophy of nature and metaphysics. Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics is the work referred to most often in discussions of traditional metaphysics.
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