Metaphysics

Aristotle. (1831). Metaphysics.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1831

Link

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-metaphysics/

Cited from

mathematics, philosophy

Cited by

6 citations across 5 artifacts.

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Primes

• Abstraction
  • Detail lost to abstraction does not come back from the abstraction alone.

    This sourceTreats abstraction (aphairesis) as 'taking away' — abstracting the quantitative aspects of sensible substances from their accidental sensible properties to yield mathematical objects — supports the irreversibility item and the 'leak' knowledge-transfer mapping.

• Essentialism
  • Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics foundational (Categories substance/accident distinction , Metaphysics Z on essence
  • Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics foundational (Categories substance/accident distinction , Metaphysics Z on essence

    This sourceDevelops the doctrine of essence (to ti en einai / ousia): substance, essence and form, with essence as 'the what it was to be' of a thing.

• Infinite Regress
  • - Philosophy / Religion. Aristotle's regress argument for the unmoved mover ,

    This sourceDiscusses abstraction (aphairesis) as the operation by which mathematical objects are abstracted from sensible particulars — stripping away physical properties to retain only quantitative structure. Establishes abstraction in mathematical thought as a philosophical principle.

• Ontology

  • This sourceDiscusses abstraction (aphairesis) as the operation by which mathematical objects are abstracted from sensible particulars — stripping away physical properties to retain only quantitative structure. Establishes abstraction in mathematical thought as a philosophical principle.

• Transformation
  • … alters the form according to a rule, and produces something genuinely different (even if the underlying substance or symmetry remains invariant), echoing Aristotle's (c. 350 BCE) distinction in the Metaphysics between change of substance (genuine transformation) and mere change of accident or perspective.

    This sourceDiscusses abstraction (aphairesis) as the operation by which mathematical objects are abstracted from sensible particulars — stripping away physical properties to retain only quantitative structure. Establishes abstraction in mathematical thought as a philosophical principle.

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