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Substances and Universals in Aristotle's ''Metaphysics'' Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher: Cornell University Press

Aug 30, 2013 - The first philosophy (Metaphysics) is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. Feb 5, 2012 - Jones was mentiong that Grice was mentioning in the "Aristotle on the multiplicity of being" paper that Grice reads a certain passage in Aristotle's Metaphysics -- 1002a7-- as asserting that (in Grice's words): "the existence of a universal requires . Oct 7, 2010 - Medieval philosophers started their thinking about relations from Aristotle's treatment in the Categories (which we mentioned in our Introduction to Metaphysics). €�Universals and Resemblances”: Chapter 1 of Thinking and Experience by H.H. Mar 22, 2011 - With a view to action, experience (knowledge of individuals) is not inferior to art (knowledge of universals), and men of experience succeed better than those with theory but no experience, for actions are concerned not with the universal but with the individual. In this work, Aristotle divided what we can express about things into two classes: Similarly, in the sentence “that animal is a cat”, “that animal” points to a primary substance and “cat” is a secondary substance, a universal. Rejects Plato's view that Forms are substances (10). Aristotle rejects Plato's view that Forms are independent of particulars (Forms cannot exist without particulars) (9). Further, substances are, in general, what we are most interested in talking about, asking about, issuing orders about; 'indeed the primacy of substance is deeply embedded in our language'. Zimmerman (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1998). And yet people In one sense, a cause is the substance or essence, in another the matter or substratum, in a third the source of the change, and in a fourth the purpose or the good that it serves. Price; in Metaphysics: The Big Questions, edited by Peter Van Inwagen and Dean W.