Substances, Facts and the Problem of Complexity.
Aristotle submits to Parmenides' criterion of simplicity and he tries to cope with the phenomena of complexity by grading ontological status. He lowers the ontological status of accidents because of their dependence using another of Parmenides' criteria, namely that of independence. Later Aristotle...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 659 - 669 |
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