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It will be recalled that Book G opens with the statement : There is an episteme that contemplates being as being... and that this episteme was characterized by Aristotle as a searching for the principles and ultimate causes... and that he asserted : ... there must be a physis to which these principles and causes belong necessarily and per se 1.
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Ibid., 1003a, 21, 29, 28.
Regarding the other subject-matters of philosophical noesis cf. p. 15 supra.
Meta., 1014b, 16 ff.
cf. particularly Physics, 193a, ? ff.
cf. Phys., 187a, 11 ff.
Ibid., 188b, 37 ff.
Loc. cit.
Plato, Meno, 8rd.
cf. A. Riezler, op. cit., p. 8 ff., on the meaning of φύοις in the Presocratic Philosophy. Also W. Szilasi, Die Beziehungen zwischen Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft: p. 148. Also M. Heidegger, Holzwege: cf. p. 31 or p. 315. Heidegger understands the traditional meaning of as: ‘Das aufgehende in sich verweilende Walten (An-wesen)’.
Meta., 1015a, 13 ff.
Ibid., 1041b, 30 ff.
hoc. cit.
Op. cit. 1041b, 29.
Ibid., 1015a, 13.
Ibid., 1041b, 28.
See p. 21 supra.
Meta., 1003a, 28.
Ibid., 999a, 28.
This expression is used by K. Riezler in Man Mutable and Immutable (p. 343).
cf. the discussions, pp. 23 and 35.
cf. Meta., 998b, 20 ff.
The student of the Lyceum should, as a philosophos, as distinct from a physikos also keep the substantiality of those substances before his eyes which are, as such,’ separate and immutable’, cf. Meta., 1069a, 18; also 1025b, I ff, particularly 1026a, I0 ff. Yet he was to start from the physis of con-crete things and see ‘in them’ that which is separable from matter, cf. Ibid., 1026a, 10 ff. and 1026a, 30 ff. cf. infra p. 63 ff.
Or at least ‘analogous’, cf. Ibid., 1071a, 31, 1070b, 18, 1070b, 25.
ov qua ov.
Meta., 1017a, 8. καθαύτα δέ είναι λέγεται.
Ibid., 1017a, 22.
Ibid., 1017a, 23. τα σχήματα της κατηγορίας.
cf. Meta., 1028, 10, or Phys., 185a, 30 ff.
cf. p. 11 ff. supra.
Meta., 1017a, 23.
De Interpretation, 16b, 26.
Ibid., 17a, 24.
See also p. 39 infra.
Categories, Ib, 25.
Meta., 1028b, 3.
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Marx, W. (1954). The Physis Einai or On. In: The Meaning of Aristotle’s ‘Ontology’. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9504-1_4
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