Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-464) and indexes.
Introduction -- I. The plan of the Categories -- II. Nonsubstantial individuals -- III. Commitment and configuration in the Categories -- IV. Tales of the two treatises -- V. The structure and substance of substance -- VI. Form as essence -- VII. Zeta 6 on the immediacy of form -- VIII. The purification of form -- IX. Generality and compositionality: Z.13's worries about form -- X. Form and explanation -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index.
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Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. Two sources for these views are 'Categories' and the central books of 'Metaphysics'. This text argues that he is engaged in different projects in these books.