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(2014) Aristotle's theory of abstraction, Dordrecht, Springer.
A science of being qua being considers features on the same level of generality as being. The "qua" phrase should be taken in the commensurately universal sense of Posterior Analytics I.4. I give truth conditions for Aristotle's "qua" propositions. Aristotle takes the science of being qua being to investigate attributes of being holding qua being: being and unity and their contraries. Also it looks for principles common to all beings, like the principle of non-contradiction. Again, it investigates what is required for all beings to exist: namely individual substances , as well have what their fundamental principles are. Finally it considers other ultimate causes of being, like God, Who is also the preeminent case of being.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04759-1_8
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Bäck, A. (2014). The subject of metaphysics, in Aristotle's theory of abstraction, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 203-216.
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