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CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x1 <str<strong>on</strong>g>Aristotle</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s <strong>Metaphysics</strong> 11 What is the <strong>Metaphysics</strong> About? The Questi<strong>on</strong>, ‘What is Being?’ 12 Sources of the Questi<strong>on</strong>, ‘What is Being?’ 43 A Central Distincti<strong>on</strong> in the <strong>Metaphysics</strong>: Being in General 9versus Primary Being (prōtē ousia)4 Three Candidates for Primary Being: The Particular; the 12Universal; and the Essence5 Does <str<strong>on</strong>g>Aristotle</str<strong>on</strong>g> Assume Essentialism in the <strong>Metaphysics</strong>? 166 The Structure and Unity of the <strong>Metaphysics</strong> 197 About this Compani<strong>on</strong> to the <strong>Metaphysics</strong> 212 <strong>Metaphysics</strong> as the Science of the Ultimate Explanati<strong>on</strong>s of 23All Things (Book I)1 <strong>Metaphysics</strong> as the Science of the Ultimate Explanati<strong>on</strong>s and 23Principles of All Things2 How Explanatory Knowledge Differs from Sense Percepti<strong>on</strong> and 31Experience3 <str<strong>on</strong>g>Aristotle</str<strong>on</strong>g>’s General C<strong>on</strong>cepti<strong>on</strong> of Explanati<strong>on</strong>s and Explanatory 38Knowledgei The search for explanati<strong>on</strong>s and what it is based <strong>on</strong> 38ii The nature and requirements of explanati<strong>on</strong>s 42iii The relati<strong>on</strong> of metaphysics to the other sciences 48

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