The Discovery of Things
by Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
"Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naive, prephilosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and Plato's strange counterparts, the "Late-Learners" of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflect Aristotle's discovery that ordinary items are things (objects with properties).
Put most starkly, Mann contends that there were no things before Aristotle."--BOOK JACKET.
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Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories and Their Context
2020, Princeton University Press
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The discovery of things: Aristotle's Categories and their context
2000, Princeton University Press
in English
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The Discovery of Things
February 22, 2000, Princeton University Press
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"It has long been noticed that Aristotle's Categories, in the form in which we have this work, does not form a unified treatise."
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