Aristotle on Metaphysics(2004) - Bibotu.com

PHENOMENALISM AND RELATIVISM 189this aporia was how metaphysics, i.e. the science of the nature of being, isrelated to logic, i.e. the science of the basic principles of reasoning andrational thought (e.g. the principle of non-contradiction). Doesmetaphysics include logic, or is logic independent of metaphysics ? And ifthe latter is the case, is logic perhaps more fundamental than metaphysics?<strong>Aristotle</strong> has now (at the end of IV. 6 and in general at the end of bookIV) defended an answer to this fundamental aporia: logic is notindependent of metaphysics; on the contrary, logic requires metaphysics.