Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
The Discovery of Things
Wolfgang-Rainer Mann · 2000
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"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.
Book details
- Year
- 2000
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 244
- ISBN
- 9780691010205
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