On Determining What There is : : The Identity of Ontological Categories in Aquinas, Scotus and Lowe / / Paul Symington.

Generally, categories are understood to express the most general features of reality. Yet, since categories have this special status, obtaining a correct list of them is difficult. This question is addressed by examining how Thomas Aquinas establishes the list of categories through a technique of id...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Eide : Foundations of Ontology , 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE: AQUINAS ON ESTABLISHING THE IDENTITY OF ARISTOTLE’S CATEGORIES
  • CHAPTER TWO: SCOTUS’S CRITICISM OF AQUINAS’S DERIVATION OF THE CATEGORIES
  • CHAPTER THREE: A RECONSIDERATION AND DEFENSE OF AQUINAS’S POSITION
  • CHAPTER FOUR: LOGICAL SYNTAX AND LOWE’S FOUR-CATEGORY ONTOLOGY
  • CONCLUSION
  • WORKS CITED
  • Backmatter