a ISBN 0-87220-5150 (cloth : alk. paper-)

a ISBN 0-87220-5142 (pbk. : alk. paper-)

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number B491.M4

b Item number R44 2000

a Dewey Classification 110/.92

a Personal name Reeve C D C

d Dates associated with a name 1948

a Title Substantial knowledge :

b Remainder of title Aristotle's metaphysics /

c Statement of responsibility, etc C.D.C. Reeve.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Indianapolis :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Hackett Pub.,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c2000.

a Extent xviii, 322 p. ;

c Dimensions 23 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and indexes.

a Formatted contents note Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works -- 1. Platonism. 1.1. Separation. 1.2. Platonic Forms. 1.3. Problems with Platonic Forms -- 2. Scientific Knowledge. 2.1. Aristotelian Sciences. 2.2. Dialectic and First Principles. 2.3. Natural Sciences. 2.4. Natural and Theoretical Sciences. 2.5. Exact and Inexact Sciences -- 3. Essence. 3.1. Natural Beings. 3.2. How Natural Beings Come-to-Be. 3.3. How Human Beings Come-to-Be. 3.4. The Inheritance of Understanding. 3.5. Artifactual Essences. 3.6. Mathematical Essences. 3.7. Penmattered Natural Essences and Inexact Sciences. 3.8. The Definition of an Essence. 3.9. The Parts of an Essence. 3.10. The Formal Element of an Essence. 3.11. Other Essences -- 4. Being as Substance. 4.1. Intrinsic Being. 4.2. Coincidental Being. 4.3. Categories of Intrinsic Being. 4.4. Non-Substantial Intrinsic Beings. 4.5. Substantial Intrinsic Beings. 4.6. The Structure of Intrinsic Being. 4.7. The Task of Categories. 4.8. Primary Substance[subscript c] -- 5. Perceptible Substance. 5.1. Perceptible Substance and Change. 5.2. Primary Substance[subscript m]. 5.3. Form. 5.4. Suniversals. 5.5. Winners and Losers -- 6. Substance as Form. 6.1. Potentiality and Actuality. 6.2. Activities and Their Ends. 6.3. Activity as Primary Substance[subscript m]? -- 7. Intelligible Substance. 7.1. Sight as a Model for Understanding. 7.2. Passive Understanding. 7.3. Productive Understanding. 7.4. Self-Understanding. 7.5. Human Beings as Their Self-Understandings. 7.6. Self-Understanding as Primary Substance[subscript m]? -- 8. Divine Substance. 8.1. God as Unmoved Mover. 8.2. God and the Heavens. 8.3. God's Essence. 8.4. God and "the Nature of the Whole" 8.5. God as Primary Substance[subscript m]? -- 9. The Science of Being Qua Being. 9.1. Primary Science and Its Problems. 9.2. Special and Universal Sciences. 9.3. Theoretical Philosophies and First Principles. 9.4. Primary Philosophy and Non-Contradiction. 9.5. Non-Contradiction Demonstrated. 9.6. Primary Philosophy as Primary Science? 9.7. Theology as Primary Science? 9.8. The Primacy Dilemma Solved. 9.9. Post Dilemma Metaphysics -- 10. Aristotelianism. 10.1. The Primary Dilemma Revisited. 10.2. Aristotelianism or Platonism? 10.3. Aristotle Without God? 10.4. Aristotle's Conception of Philosophy.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Metaphysics

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Substance Philosophy