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An Analysis of Aristotle's Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Aristotle's Metaphysics (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Aristotle's Metaphysics is a collection of essays on a wide range
of topics, almost certainly never put together by Aristotle
himself. This helps to explain why the material covers such a very
wide range of material, from meaning to mathematics, from logical
sequences to religion. It includes very useful treatments of the
nature of axioms (or primary truths) such as the law of
non-contradiction and the laws of logic. In looking at these,
Aristotle provides sustained guides to clear thinking as would be
evidenced in analysis and evaluation of arguments and the
production of good reasoning. He also provides some valuable
discussion of interpretation by looking at homonyms (as in 'this
knife is sharp' and 'this note is sharp') and what he calls
'paronyms,' which lie between homonyms and synonyms: an example is
the word 'healthy'. Metaphysics is also useful to study for its
frequent examples of hypothetical reasoning, including their use in
mathematics ('if x, then y...') and science ('if a moves b, then b
moves c...', so what moves a?). In addition, we find Aristotle
analysing Plato's arguments and subjecting them to sustained
(critical) evaluation. While Metaphysics shows Aristotle in many
well-developed critical thinking modes, it is first and foremost a
work of exquisite reasoning, creating strong arguments that
continue to be debated and deployed today, nearly 2500 years after
they were written.
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