Article ID: CBB965188740

Quantities and Contraries: Aristotle's "Categories" 6, 5b11-6a18 (2006)

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The immediate purpose of this paper is fairly modest. I would like to provide an analysis of Aristotle's three counterexamples to his claim that no quantity has a contrary in Categories 6. 1 will have something to say about Aristotle's discussion of the first two counterexamples, although the bulk of my paper will be devoted to his discussion of the third counterexample at 6all-18, a passage which has not received due attention by modern commentators. My analysis will then provide a basis for some suggestions of wider significance.

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Authors & Contributors
Simplicius of Cilicia
Bruun, Otto
Burkert, Walter
Corti, Lorenzo
Didion, David M.
Flemming, Rebecca
Journals
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Dianoia: Annali di storia della filosofia
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Journal of the History of Philosophy
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
Cambridge University
Brill
Cornell University Press
Duckworth
Lexington Books
Vrin
Concepts
Philosophy
Categories (philosophy)
Quantity (philosophy)
Aristotelianism
Philosophy of science
Logic
People
Aristotle
Kant, Immanuel
Simplicius of Cilicia
Alexander of Aphrodisias
al-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammd ibn Muḥammad
Burley, Walter
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Medieval
14th century
13th century
18th century
19th century
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France
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England
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