One/ Subject and Programme.-
1. Introduction.-
2. Quandaries in recent
Aristotle research.-
3. The programme of this study.- Notes to
Chapter One.-
Two/ The General Doctrine I Some Theorems and Rules.-
1. Multifariousness and
common core.-
2. A provisional assumption.-
3. Common properties.-
4.
Comparisons.- Notes to
Chapter Two.- Three/ The General Doctrine II Absolute
and Qualified Modalities.-
1. Introduction.-
2. Qualified vs. absolute
modalities.-
3. Qualified necessity, syllogisms and the proof per
impossibile.-
4. Absolute impossibility and the commensurability of the
diagonal.-
5. Real and assumed background knowledge.-
6. Relations between
temporal and modal concepts.- Notes to
Chapter Three.- Four/ Modality and
Time (I) The Principle of Plenitude.-
1. Introduction.-
2. The Principle of
Plenitude and its role in Aristotles modal thinking.-
3. The evidence.-
Notes to
Chapter Four.- Five/ Modality and Time (II) De Caelo I.12 and The
Necessity of What is Eternal.-
1. The problem.-
2. Williams and the supposed
logical errors.-
3. Hintikka and the confusion in Aristotles Master
Argument.-
4. Judson and the grossness of Aristotles fallacy.-
5. The
metaphysics in De Caelo I.12 as exposed by Waterlow.-
6. De Caelo I.12 and
the necessity of what is eternal.-
7. Some extrapolations and the role of
hylź phthartź.- Notes to
Chapter Five.- Six/ Modality and Time (III) De
Interpretations 9.-
1. Introduction.-
2. The traditional views.-
3. De
Interpretations 9 on the statistical reading.-
4. Deliberation and chance
events in De Interpretatione 9.-
5. The interpretation.- Notes to
Chapter
Six.- Seven/ Posterior Analytics I.46 The De Omni-Per Se Distinction.-
1.
Introduction.-
2. Zabarella on Aristotelian necessity.-
3. Inseparable
accidents.-
4. Afirst look at Posterior Analytics I.46.-
5. Some
commentaries on Posterior Analytics I.4 and 6.-
6. Real or conceptual
modalities?.-
7. Aristotle, matter, and definition.- Notes to
Chapter Seven.-
Eight/ Posterior Analytics I.46 Names and Naming.-
1. Abstraction in
Metaphysics XIII.3.-
2. Abstraction and naming.-
3. The issue of names and
naming.-
4. A new look at Posterior Analytics I.46, part one.-
5. Some major
differences.-
6. A new look at Posterior Analytics 1.4-6, part two.-
7.
Belonging kath hauto and homogeneity.-
8. Homogeneity, the necessity of what
is always and the concept of possibility.- Notes to
Chapter Eight.- Nine/
Apodeictic Syllogistic.-
1. Introduction.-
2. External criticism.-
3. The
nature of Aristotles syllogistic theory.-
4. Apodeictic syllogistic.-
5.
Incoherence.-
6. McCalls reconstruction.-
7. The four apodeictic categorical
sentences and apodeictic ecthesis.-
8. The apodeictic conversion rules.-
9.
The apodeictic Barbaras and domains of discourse.-
10. The status of ALuu.-
11. The soundness of the inference base.-
12. Conversion rules and shifts of
type of predication.-
13. Conclusions.- Notes to
Chapter Nine.- Index of
Names.- Index of Subjects.