Aristotle on the category of relation / Pamela M. Hood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hood, Pamela Michelle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Relation (Philosophy).

Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xi, 154 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2004]

Contents:

Part 1 The Exegesis

Chapter 1 The Critics' Charges 1

1.1 Aristotle's Meta-ontology 4

1.2 Aristotle's Category Theory 5

1.3 Aristotle's Philosophy of Language, Logic, and Science 11

1.4 Treatment of Relation in the Corpus 15

Chapter 2 Categories 7 21

2 Aristotle's First Account of Relatives 21

2.1 The Four Sets of Examples 23

2.2 The Marks of Relatives 30

2.3 The aporia Regarding Substance 36

2.4 Aristotle's Second Account of Relatives 38

2.5 The Being Component 39

2.6 The Holding Somehow Component 41

2.7 Is L Still Necessary? 41

2.8 The Fifth Mark of Relatives 43

2.9 The Sixth Mark of Relatives 50

Chapter 3 Metaphysics V.15 55

3 The First Classification Scheme 55

3.1 Numerical Relatives 56

3.2 Functional Relatives 60

3.3 Intentional Relatives 63

3.4 The Second Classification Scheme 73

3.5 Things Relative By Their Nature 74

3.6 Accidental Relatives 81

Part 2 The Problems and Solutions

Chapter 4 Interpreting Aristotle's Relatives 85

4.1 Ackrill's Interpretation of Relatives 87

4.2 Mignucci's Interpretation of Relatives 91

4.3 Morale's Interpretation of Relatives 95

4.4 Disparity Between the Commentators' Interpretations 108

4.5 Aristotelian Entities and Their Relational Characteristics 111

4.6 Recurrent and Non-Recurrent Non-substantial Entities 114

4.7 Relatives as Complex Predicative Entities 116

Chapter 5 Epistemological Issues 119

5 Aristotle's Substance Argument 120

5.1 Overview of the Knowing Definitely Criterion 121

5.2 Ackrill's Interpretation of the Knowing Definitely Criterion 124

5.3 Mignucci's Interpretation of the Knowing Definitely Criterion 128

5.4 Morales's Interpretation of the Knowing Definitely Criterion 133

5.5 Does the Substance Argument Succeed? 136

5.6 Indefinite Relations and the Knowing Definitely Criterion 138.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis--(Ph. D., Claremont Graduate University).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-149) and index.

ISBN:

0761830073

OCLC:

57449125