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Aristotle's Theory of the Unity of Science /

"Aristotle was the first philosopher to provide a theory of autonomous scientific disciplines and the systematic connections between those disciplines. This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of these systematic connections: analogy, focality, and cumulation." "Wilson app...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wilson, Malcolm, 1961- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Genus, Abstraction, and Commensurability
  • Analogy in Aristotle's Biology
  • Analogy and Demonstration
  • The Structure of Focality
  • Metaphysical Focality
  • Mixed Uses of Analogy and Focality
  • Cumulation.