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What is Aristotle On The Many Senses Of Being about?

It is important for Aristotle’s science of being that being is said in many ways, not only the categorial senses, but also being as actuality and potentiality, as truth, and per accidens. But Aristotle describes all the senses of being only in the puzzling MetaphysicsΔ‎. 7, which also puzzlingly ignores the distinction between 1-place (existential) being and 2-place (predicative) being, giving predominantly predicative examples with a few existential examples mixed in. But Aristotle’s methodology requires him to reanalyse assertions of 1-place being as assertions of 2-place being in order to investigate their causes; different ‘senses’ of being yield different investigations of causes. But we must reject the common assumption that Aristotle analyses ‘F exists’ as ‘for some appropriate G, F is G’; rather, he analyses ‘F exists’ as ‘for some appropriate S, S is F’, and looks for the causes of F’s existence in the causes of S’s being F.

Author

Stephen Menn

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN