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Article: Sfendoni-Mentzou, Demetra, Hattiangadi, Jagdish, and Johnson, David M., editors. Aristotle and Contemporary Science, volume 2.
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001. xi + 312 pp. Cloth, $62.95--David Bostock revisits Aristotle's theory of matter which was already discussed in some papers of volume 1. He warns the reader that Aristotle would have been surprised by the explanations some propose of his doctrine. Prime matter is, in the first place, the stuff the four elements are made of (p. 6); the elements function in their turn as matter for still higher things. Bostock believes that there are several ultimate kinds of matter which cannot change into one another. The atoms would be the basic elements of the bodies, a function fulfilled by matter according to Aristotle. Obviously Bostock does not ...
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