Aristotle On The Category Of Relation

In Aristotle on the Category of Relation, Pamela Hood challenges the view that Aristotle's conception of relation is so divergent from our own that it does not count as a theory of relation at all. This book presents compelling evidence that Aristotle's theory of relation is more robust than originally suspected.

Pamela M. Hood is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Part One The Exegesis

The Critics' Charges

1

(20)

Introduction

1

(20)

Aristotle's Meta-ontology

4

(1)

Aristotle's Category Theory

5

(6)

Aristotle's Philosophy of Language, Logic, and Science

11

(4)

Treatment of Relation in the Corpus

15

(6)

Categories 7

21

(34)

Aristotle's First Account of Relatives

21

(34)

The Four Sets of Examples

23

(7)

The Marks of Relatives

30

(6)

The aporia Regarding Substance

36

(2)

Aristotle's Second Account of Relatives

38

(1)

The Being Component

39

(2)

The Holding Somehow Component

41

(1)

Is L Still Necessary?

41

(2)

The Fifth Mark of Relatives

43

(7)

The Sixth Mark of Relatives

50

(1)

Summary

51

(4)

Metaphysics V.15

55

(30)

The First Classification Scheme

55

(30)

Numerical Relatives

56

(4)

Functional Relatives

60

(3)

Intentional Relatives

63

(10)

The Second Classification Scheme

73

(1)

Things Relative by Their Nature

74

(7)

Accidental Relatives

81

(1)

Summary

82

(3)

Part Two The Problems and Solutions

Interpreting Aristotle's Relatives

85

(34)

Introduction

85

(34)

Ackrill's Interpretation of Relatives

87

(4)

Mignucci's Interpretation of Relatives

91

(4)

Morales's Interpretation of Relatives

95

(13)

Disparity Between the Commentators' Interpretations

108

(3)

Aristotelian Entities and Their Relational Characteristics

111

(3)

Recurrent and Non-Recurrent Non-substantial Entities

114

(2)

Relatives as Complex Predicative Entities

116

(2)

Summary

118

(1)

Epistemological Issues

119

(22)

Aristotle's Substance Argument

120

(21)

Overview of the Knowing Definitely Criterion

121

(3)

Ackrill's Interpretation of the Knowing Definitely Criterion

124

(4)

Mignucci's Interpretation of the Knowing Definitely Criterion

128

(5)

Morales's Interpretation of the Knowing Definitely Criterion

133

(3)

Does the Substance Argument Succeed?

136

(2)

Indefinite Relations and the Knowing Definitely Criterion

138

(1)

Summary

139

(2)

Conclusion

141

(2)

Notes

143

(4)

Bibliography

147

(4)

Index

151

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