Book Iota

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Book Iota is one of the later sections of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, dealing with advanced issues in ontology and the nature of unity and plurality.

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instanceOf book section
philosophical text
author Aristotle NERFINISHED
centralTheme modes of opposition
the nature of the one
the relation of one to many
dealsWith accidental unity
being
contrariety
generic unity
identity
kinds of unity
numerical unity
one and many
ontology
opposition
plurality
priority and posteriority in being
sameness and difference
specific unity
unity
discusses logical versus ontological unity
unity by contact
unity by form
unity by position
unity of continuity
unity of definition
unity of subject
whether the one is a substance
whether unity is a category
follows Book Theta NERFINISHED
hasGreekName Ιῶτα
hasLatinName Iota
hasWork standard modern commentaries on Metaphysics Iota
historicalPeriod Classical Greek philosophy
influenced commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
later metaphysical theories of unity
medieval scholastic metaphysics
isNumberedAs Book 10
isSectionOf later books of the Metaphysics
partOf Metaphysics NERFINISHED
philosophicalTradition Peripatetic school NERFINISHED
precedes Book Kappa NERFINISHED
studiedIn Aristotelian metaphysics scholarship
history of philosophy courses
writtenInLanguage Ancient Greek

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Metaphysics hasPart Book Iota
subject surface form: Metaphysics (Aristotle)