Philosophy 3006F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Transitive Relation, Polymath, Substance Theory
8 Oct 2018
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I. e. , health in the body of another thing. 3 said-of and not present-in: primary substances = particulars, members of natural kinds, characterized by their secondary substances (universals, secondary substances = universals. I. e. , man: essential characteristics of primary substances, kinds to which primary substances below. 4 said-of and present-in: a being that is both said-of and present-in a primary substance is an accidental universal. I. e. , knowledge or whiteness: the universal whiteness is said-of many primary substances but is only accidental to them. Lecture notes january 11, 2018: gateway into metaphysics, what kinds of things there are and what are the most important things, plato = the forms, aristotle disagrees with plato, aristotle = polymath (wide range in interest) What sorts of things are out there? (cid:862) o(cid:272)(cid:396)ates (cid:449)alks(cid:863: what socrates is doing, what socrates is capable of, tells us something about potentiality, what kind of a thing we are dealing with, what it(cid:859)s esse(cid:374)(cid:272)e is.
