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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY
  I.Book Alpha：THE THEORY OF EXPLANATION
    1.The Development of Theoretical Knowledge
    2.The Nature and Goal of Wisdom
    3.Early Views of Materials, Movement, and Good
    4.Inadequate Uses of Material and Efficient Factors
    5.Pythagorean and Parmenidean Principles
    6.Platonist Material and Formal Explanations
    7.Explanation as Material, Efficient, Formal, and Final
    8.Critique of Early Philosophies
    9.Critique of Doctrines of Ideas
    10.Conclusion of the Historical Survey of Explanations
  II.Book Alpha the Less: REMARKS ON PHILOSOPHIC PROCEDURES
    1.Progress in Philosophic Knowledge
    2.Rejection of the Infinite Regress
    3.The Importance of Training in Method
  III.Book Beta:TYPICAL PROBLEMS IN GENERAL PHILOSOPHY
    1.An Outline of Philosophic Problems
    2.Problems of Unitary Science and Varied Being
    3.Problems of Genera as Principles of Explanation
    4.Problems of Forms, Principles, and Unity
    5.Problems of Bodily and of Mathematical Being
    6.Problems of Ideas, Power, and Universality
THE PROVINCE OF PHILOSOPHY
  IV.Book Gamma: BEING AND KNOWLEDGE
    1.The Science of Being as Being
    2.The Unity of Philosophy
    3.Philosophy and the Axiomatic
    4.Debates about Contradiction
    5.Perception, Change, and Truth
    6.Right Judgment and Relativity
    7.Intermediates and Excluded Middle
    8.Contradiction and Futile Indiscrimination
    V.Book Delta: DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
    1.Beginning
    2.Explanatory Factor
    3.Element
    4.Nature
    5.Necessary
    6.One
    7.Being
    8.Primary Being
    9.Same, Other, Different, Alike
    10.Opposite, Contrary, Other in Kind
    11.Before and After
    12.Power
    13.Quantity
    14.Quality
    15.Relation
    16.The Complete
    17.Limit
    18.According To, By Itself
    19.Disposition
    20.Habitude
    21.Endurance
    22.Privation
    23.To Have and Hold
    24.To Come From
    25.Part
    26.Whole
    27.Mutilated
    28.Genus
    29.The False
    30.The Accidental
  VI.Book Epsilon: FIRST PHILOSOPHY AND IRRELEVANT WAYS OF BEING
    1.Theoretical Sciences as Natural, Mathematical, and Theological
    2.Exclusion of Accidental Being from Science
    3.The Genuineness of the Fortuitous
    4.Exclusion of Being as the True from Science
BEING AND BECOMING
  VII.Book Zeta: THE SEARCH FOR PRIMARY BEING
    1.Primary and Dependent Being
    2.Diverse Views of Primary Being
    3.Subject Matter as Primary Being
    4.Definition and Integral Concepts
    5.Definition and Difficult Dependent Concepts
    6.Definition, Knowledge, and Objects
    7.Clues in Natural and Artificial Production
    8.Matter and Form Combined in Objects
    9.Conditions of Types of Change
    10.Definition, Analysis, and Form
    11.Definition and Forms Not Easily Recognized
    12.Definition and Fundamental Characteristics
    13.Universals as Common Qualities
    14.Universals Not Independent
    15.Universals, Definition, and Knowledge
    16.The Highest Universals
    17.The Problem of the Unity of the Individual
  VIII.Book Eta: THE UNITY OF MATTER AND FORM
    1.Matter and Change
    2.Differentiating Characteristics and Individuality
    3.Alleged Mediations Between Matter and Form
    4.Emergence of Specific Objects and Events
    5.Difficulties in the Logic of Change
    6.The Unity of the Individual Explained
  IX.Book Theta: POWERS AND OPERATIONS
    1.Active and Passive Power
    2.Non-Rational and Rational Power
    3.Power and Change
    4.Power and Possibility and Impossibility
    5.Juxtaposition of Complementary Powers
    6.Antithesis of Power and Act
    7.Conditions of Potential Being
    8.Priority of Act to Power
    9.Estimates of Power and Act
    10.Truth and Being
  X.Book Iota：UNITY AND DERIVATIVE CONCEPTS
    1.Unity as Individual and Measure
    2.Unity and Being as Definite
    3.Unity, Plurality, and Their Derivatives
    4.The Nature of Contraries
    5.Conjoint Denial of Extremes
    6.Opposition of Unity to Plurality
    7.The Nature of Intermediates
    8.Otherness as to Kinds
    9.Contraries Marking Differences in Kind
    10.The Perishable and the Imperishable
PHILOSOPHIC EXCERPTS
  XI.Book Kappa: REPETITIONS AND QUOTATIONS
    A.FROM THE METAPHYSICS
    1.Questions on the Unity of Wisdom
    2.Questions on the Status of Principles
    3.Being and the Unity of Philosophy
    4.First Science and the Axiomatic
    5.The Principle of Contradiction
    6.Alleged Difficulties About Contradiction
    7.The Rank of Theology Among Sciences
    8.Being as Accident and as Truth
    B.FROM THE PHYSICS
    9.Chance
    10.Power, Operation, and Movement
    11.The Infinite
    12.Change and Movement
    13.Kinds of Movement and Allied Concepts
ETERNAL BEING
  XII.Book Lambda: DIVINE BEING
    1.Primary Beings and Their Kinds
    2.Changeable Primary Being and Matter
    3.Definite Change and the Forms
    4.Analogies in Different Changes
    5.Status of Principles Within Perishable Being
    6.The Eternal Prime Mover
    7.The Final Good
    8.Stellar Divinities and the Divine Unity
    9.Self-Activity of the Supreme Being
    10.Divine Perfection and the Natural World
  XIII.Book Mu：MATHEMATICAL ENTITIES AND THE IDEAS
    1.Views of Mathematics and of Ideas
    2.Mathematics and the Concrete
    3.Mathematics as Abstract
    4.The Ideas as Original and Selected
    5.The Ideas as Futile for Explanation
    6.Views of Numbers as Explanations
    7.Units of Number Alike or Unlike
    8.The Nature and Derivation of Numbers
    9.Numbers, Geometry, and the Ideas
    10.Generality and Particular Reference of Knowledge
  XIV.Book Nu: Numbers, Ideas, and First Principles
    1.Contrary Principles, Unity, and Plurality
    2.Elements and Eternal and Plural Being
    3.Numbers, Ideas, and Generation
    4.Numbers, Ideas, and the Good
    5.Numbers, Generation, and Explanation
    6.Consequences of Fantastic Doctrines of Numbers
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