Inhaltsverzeichnis
One/ Subject and Programme. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Quandaries in recent Aristotle research. - 3. The programme of this study. - Notes to Chapter One. - Two/ The General Doctrine I Some Theorems and Rules. - 1. Multifariousness and common core. - 2. A provisional assumption. - 3. Common properties. - 4. Comparisons. - Notes to Chapter Two. - Three/ The General Doctrine II Absolute and Qualified Modalities. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Qualified vs. absolute modalities. - 3. Qualified necessity, syllogisms and the proof per impossibile. - 4. Absolute impossibility and the commensurability of the diagonal. - 5. Real and assumed background knowledge. - 6. Relations between temporal and modal concepts. - Notes to Chapter Three. - Four/ Modality and Time (I) The Principle of Plenitude. - 1. Introduction. - 2. The Principle of Plenitude and its role in Aristotle s modal thinking. - 3. The evidence. - Notes to Chapter Four. - Five/ Modality and Time (II) De Caelo I. 12 and The Necessity of What is Eternal. - 1. The problem. - 2. Williams and the supposed logical errors. - 3. Hintikka and the confusion in Aristotle s Master Argument . - 4. Judson and the grossness of Aristotle s fallacy . - 5. The metaphysics in De Caelo I. 12 as exposed by Waterlow. - 6. De Caelo I. 12 and the necessity of what is eternal. - 7. Some extrapolations and the role of hylê phthartê. - Notes to Chapter Five. - Six/ Modality and Time (III) De Interpretations 9. - 1. Introduction. - 2. The traditional views. - 3. De Interpretations 9 on the statistical reading. - 4. Deliberation and chance events in De Interpretatione 9. - 5. The interpretation. - Notes to Chapter Six. - Seven/ Posterior Analytics I. 4 6 The De Omni-Per Se Distinction. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Zabarella on Aristotelian necessity. - 3. Inseparable accidents. - 4. Afirst look at Posterior Analytics I. 4 6. - 5. Some commentaries on Posterior Analytics I. 4 and 6. - 6. Real or conceptual modalities? . - 7. Aristotle, matter, and definition. - Notes to Chapter Seven. - Eight/ Posterior Analytics I. 4 6 Names and Naming. - 1. Abstraction in Metaphysics XIII. 3. - 2. Abstraction and naming. - 3. The issue of names and naming. - 4. A new look at Posterior Analytics I. 4 6, part one. - 5. Some major differences. - 6. A new look at Posterior Analytics 1. 4-6, part two. - 7. Belonging kath hauto and homogeneity. - 8. Homogeneity, the necessity of what is always and the concept of possibility. - Notes to Chapter Eight. - Nine/ Apodeictic Syllogistic. - 1. Introduction. - 2. External criticism. - 3. The nature of Aristotle s syllogistic theory. - 4. Apodeictic syllogistic. - 5. Incoherence. - 6. McCall s reconstruction. - 7. The four apodeictic categorical sentences and apodeictic ecthesis. - 8. The apodeictic conversion rules. - 9. The apodeictic Barbaras and domains of discourse. - 10. The status of ALuu. - 11. The soundness of the inference base. - 12. Conversion rules and shifts of type of predication. - 13. Conclusions. - Notes to Chapter Nine. - Index of Names. - Index of Subjects.
