Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary material -- PRELIMINARIES TO METAPHYSICAL ENQUIRY -- THE PROPER SUBJECT OF METAPHYSICS -- THE CLAIMANTS FOR THE TITLE ‘TRUE OUSIA’ EXAMINED -- TRUE OUSIA FINALLY IDENTIFIED AS THE ENMATTERED FORM -- ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL BEING. THE MATHEMATICALS -- THE UNITY OF ARISTOTLE’S THOUGHT: THE OTHER WORKS -- EPILOGUE: MAKING UP THE BALANCE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM.

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This study intends to show that the ascription of many shortcomings or obscurities to Aristotle is due to the persistent misinterpetation of key notions in his works, including anachronistic perceptions of statement making. In the first volume Aristotle's semantics is culled from the Organon. The second volume presents Aristotle's ontology of the sublunar world, and pays special attention to his strategy of argument in light of his semantic views. The reconstruction of the semantic models that come forward as genuinely Aristotelian can give a new impetus to the study of Aristotelian philosophic and semantic thought.