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Tables of Contents for Aristotle's Theory of Substance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
11
The Plan of the Categories
11
27
Aristotle's Three Onymies
12
4
Some Suggestions on the Role of the Onymies
16
5
The Onymies as Grouping Principles
21
6
Two Ways to Get the List of Categories
27
2
A Pair of Problems
29
9
Nonsubstantial Individuals
38
29
The Standard Version
38
1
Owen's New Orthodoxy
39
4
The New Improved Orthodoxy
43
8
The Revised Standard Version
51
3
Independent Evidence in the Categories
54
5
The Testimony of Metaphysics Z.1
59
6
The New Revised Standard Version
65
2
Commitment and Configuration in the Categories
67
57
The Meta-Ontology of the Categories as a Theory of Per Se Being
67
6
Two-Step Dependence
73
8
Asymmetry
81
1
Asymmetry and the Nonsubstantial
82
4
The Status of Nonsubstantial Universals
86
6
The Status of Secondary Substances
92
5
Inflation: Species as General Objects
97
5
Elimination: Species as Linguistic Items
102
6
Equivocation: Waffling on Existence
108
3
A Strategy for Demotion: Existence Conditions
111
10
Idealization in the Categories: A Transitional Remark
121
3
Tales of the Two Treatises
124
33
An Argument for Outright Incompatibility
124
5
The Alleged Failure of the Categories Account of a Subject
129
9
On Two Philosophical Arguments for the Subjecthood of Form
138
6
An `Aristotelian' Argument for the Subjecthood of Form
144
8
How Not to Smuggle Matter into the Categories
152
5
The Structure and Substance of Substance
157
40
The Categories Framework in Metaphysics Z.1
158
8
Subjects and Substance in Z.3
166
6
The Priority Argument
172
4
The Reductio Argument
176
13
The Auxiliary Argument
189
8
Form as Essence
197
61
A Transitional Problem
197
3
Some `Logical' Remarks about Essence
200
5
The New Primacy Passage
205
2
The Elimination Argument
207
3
The Notion of a τoδε τι
210
9
The New Primacy Argument
219
11
Essence as the Form of a Genus (γενoυσ ειδoσ)
230
7
The γενoυσ ειδoσ and Formal Differentiae
237
10
Per Se2 Compounds and Compound Properties
247
11
Zeta 6 on the Immediacy of Form
258
31
Setting the Problem
258
4
Formulating the Zeta 6 Thesis
262
3
The Range of the thesis
265
5
Having versus Being an Essence
270
5
The Problem of Regress
275
7
Immediacy and Explanation
282
3
A Worry about the Dilution of Substance
285
4
The Purification of Form
289
54
The Structure of Z.10 and 11
291
5
The Correspondence Thesis
296
4
Varieties of Parts and Wholes
300
4
The Sophisticated Position
304
10
Definability and Particular Compounds
314
3
From Priority to Purity
317
2
Z.11 on the Purification of Form
319
2
Aristotle's Thought Experiment
321
6
Socrates the Younger on the Soul of Man
327
8
In Defense of Purity
335
6
A Transitional Remark
341
2
Generality and Compositionality: Z.13's Worries about Form
343
62
Worries about Fit: Continuity versus Autonomy
344
10
Links to Z.10 and 11
354
6
The Role of Z.13 (-16)
360
2
The Arguments of Z.13 and their Target(s)
362
6
The Master Argument
368
10
The No-Part Argument
378
7
Complexity Lost: Z.13's End Dilemma
385
5
Complexity Regained: Z.16 on Dual Complexity
390
15
Form and Explanation
405
50
Z.17's Fresh Start
405
3
The Organization of Z.17
408
1
How to Ask `Why?'
409
9
Weak Proscription and the Causal Role of Form
418
9
Explanation and the Purity of Form
427
9
Logical Heterogeneity and the Immediacy of the Form--Matter Connection
436
5
Heaps, Wholes, and the Transformation of Elements
441
8
A Philosophical Argument for Purity
449
3
Last Rights on Primacy
452
3
Bibliography
455
10
Index Locorum
465
6
General Index
471