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Article: Aristotle's Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta.
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- September 1, 2001
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WEDIN, Michael V. Aristotle's Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xiii + 482 pp. Cloth, $55.00--Significant scholarship has been devoted to the problem of the incompatibility of Aristotle's accounts of substance (ousia) in the Categories and in the Metaphysics. Substance, in the former treatise, is that category of being distinguished from the other accidental categories by reason of the ontological dependence of accident upon substance: every accident must be present in a substance to be present at all. Primary substances such as "Socrates" are distinguished from secondary substances such as "human being" or ...
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