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Start by marking Substance And Predication In Aristotle as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Aristotle's metaphysics is bedevilled by classic puzzles involving such notions as form, predication, universal, and substance, which result from his attempt to adapt the various requirements on primary sub This book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expression in the Metaphysics.

This book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expression in the Metaphysics. Aristotle's metaphysics is bedevilled by classic puzzles involving such notions as form, predication, universal, and substance, which result from his attempt to adapt the various requirements on primary substance developed in his earlier works so that they fit the very different metaphysical picture in his later work

Yet Aristotle insists that no universal is a substance.

This paper sketches counterparts in Aristotle's text to our theories of expression and of truth, and on this basis inquires into his treatment of sentences assigning an individual to its kinds. Yet Aristotle insists that no universal is a substance.

Substance theory, or substance–attribute theory, is an ontological theory about objecthood positing that a. .In chapter 6 of book I the Physics Aristotle argues that any change must be analysed in reference to the property of an invariant subject: as it was before the change and thereafter.

Substance theory, or substance–attribute theory, is an ontological theory about objecthood positing that a substance is distinct from its properties  . of changing (substantial) form.

Substance and Predication in Aristotle. Coauthors & Alternates. ISBN 9780521391597 (978-0-521-39159-7) Hardcover, Cambridge University Press, 1992. Find signed collectible books: 'Substance and Predication in Aristotle'.

In Aristotle’s early theory in the Categories, the criteria for determining what is most of all substance are all tied to two canonical forms of predication, relating a subject to its kinds (including, where the subject is a substance, to its substantial kinds), or in the case of a substance, to its accidents. But this analysis offers no technique for inquiring after the inner structure, if any, of the subjects it identifies as basic: individual substances such as the individual man or the individual horse (Categories 2, lb4–5).

Frank A. Lewis presents a closely argued exposition of Metaphysics Zeta-one of Aristotle's most dense and controversial texts. Examples of this approach include my Substance and Predication in Aristotle (Cambridge University Press, 1991). It is commonly understood to contain Aristotle's deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and surrounding metaphysical issues. But people have increasingly come to recognize how little Aristotle says in Zeta about his own theory of (Aristotelian) form and matter.

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Frank Lewis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California

Frank Lewis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, at Stanford University, and at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Substance and Predication in Aristotle (1991), and of numerous articles in ancient philosophy, especially the philosophy of Aristotle. Robert Bolton is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has also taught at MIT, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Virginia, and the University of Maryland

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