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Yu, Jiyuan. The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics.(Book Review)
From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20050601
Author:Hitchcock, David
YU, Jiyuan. The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics. The New Synthese Historical Library, vol. 52. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. xx + 238. Cloth, $105.00--In this careful, clear, thorough, important, and persuasive study, Jiyuan Yu advances a new interpretation of the central books of Aristotle's Metaphysics. He finds there not one but two accounts of substance, corresponding to the distinction Aristotle makes between per se being and potential versus actual being.
The per se beings are those signified by the ultimate predicates in species--genus ...
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