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Article: Reeve, C. D. C. Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- December 1, 2002
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Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2000. xviii + 322 pp. Cloth, $34.95--This dense book consists of an Introduction (pp. xii-xvi), a list of Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works (pp. xvii-xviii), ten chapters subdivided into numbered parts (pp. 1-302), a bibliography (called "References"), index locorum, and general index (pp. 303-22). In pursuit of the solution to what Reeve calls the Primacy Dilemma, he pursues a number of notorious problems in Aristotle, including scientific knowledge, essence, substance, God, the science of being qua being, and the historical problem of Aristotelianism.
The great strength of this study is the clear definition of the Primacy ...