Aiken Aristotle&Heidegger 1991.pdf

ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE
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to be some-thing.
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metaphysical

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framework,
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thing

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that quality
that defines
Was-sein
identity?
as
and very definite
and only after
first
things,
particular
as things
of
qua (some)
knowledge.
objects

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objects
wards

II

versus

Transcendentalism

The Problematic.

Phenomenalism:

In

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the Metaphysics,
Aristotle
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argues
knowledge
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ingly for transcendental

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type
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carries
when
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because
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comprehensive
thesis,

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elements
of

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to admit

of sophistry,
Aristotle's

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knowledge
the speculative

to have knowledge

the Aristotelian

color,

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concludes,
outside
of the phenomenal

philosopher
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knowledge.
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