The Metaphysics of AristotleG. Bell and Sons, 1896 - 445 pages |
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Page ix
... Doubt in relation to Truth - Questions preliminary to Ontology - Apodeiktic Prin- ciples - Doubts in regard of Substances - Mathematical Media - Are Genera First Principles ? -Anything separable from Singulars ? -Mortal and Immortal ...
... Doubt in relation to Truth - Questions preliminary to Ontology - Apodeiktic Prin- ciples - Doubts in regard of Substances - Mathematical Media - Are Genera First Principles ? -Anything separable from Singulars ? -Mortal and Immortal ...
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... doubt , professed a dualism of causes , but they expanded their theories with obscurity ; and the fact was that they did not appear to have broached their opinions on scientific grounds , and the efficient principle that they put ...
... doubt , professed a dualism of causes , but they expanded their theories with obscurity ; and the fact was that they did not appear to have broached their opinions on scientific grounds , and the efficient principle that they put ...
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... doubt ; for persons labouring under doubt feel like captives that are loaded with chains , and that desire to snap them in sunder . But , at any rate , for scientific investigators to refuse to entertain any doubts in the outset of ...
... doubt ; for persons labouring under doubt feel like captives that are loaded with chains , and that desire to snap them in sunder . But , at any rate , for scientific investigators to refuse to entertain any doubts in the outset of ...
Page xxix
... doubts reappears in various parts of the Metaphysics , up to the very close of the entire Treatise . These questions , likewise , are mooted merely in this book ; the reasons for and against are fairly stated , and nothing decisive ...
... doubts reappears in various parts of the Metaphysics , up to the very close of the entire Treatise . These questions , likewise , are mooted merely in this book ; the reasons for and against are fairly stated , and nothing decisive ...
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... doubt , Aristotle thinks , but that these do come within the pro- vince of the ontologist to inquire into , not merely from their belong , ing to all entities , as such , but also from their being wholly neglected in the speculations of ...
... doubt , Aristotle thinks , but that these do come within the pro- vince of the ontologist to inquire into , not merely from their belong , ing to all entities , as such , but also from their being wholly neglected in the speculations of ...
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