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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
1 Aristotle's Metaphysics 1
1 What is the Metaphysics About? The Question, 'What is Being?' 1
2 Sources of the Question, 'What is Being?' 5
3 A Central Distinction in the Metaphysics: Being in General versus Primary Being (prōtē ousia) 10
4 Three Candidates for Primary Being: The Particular; the Universal; and the Essence 12
5 Does Aristotle Assume Essentialism in the Metaphysics? 16
6 The Structure and Unity of the Metaphysics 19
7 About this Companion to the Metaphysics 21
2 Metaphysics as the Science of the Ultimate Explanations of All Things (Book I) 23
1 Metaphysics as the Science of the Ultimate Explanations and Principles of All Things 23
2 How Explanatory Knowledge Differs from Sense Perception and Experience 31
3 Aristotle's General Conception of Explanations and Explanatory Knowledge 39
i The search for explanations and what it is based on 39
ii The nature and requirements of explanations 42

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Publication Information: Book Title: Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics. Contributors: Vasilis Politis - author. Publisher: Routledge. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 2004. Page Number: v.
    
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