...predicated of them. 2 1 With 1oo2 b 32-1003a 5 cf. 996a 10-11. For the answer cf. H. 2-e. 9, A. 6. 2 With 1003a 5-17 cf. 996a 9-10. For the answer cf....being. They cut off a part of being and investigate 2 5 the attributes of this part—this is what the mathematical sciences for instance do. Now since...

...as substance, cause, quality, action, etc. "There is a science", says Aristotle (Met. IV, 1003 a,21) "which investigates being as being, and the attributes...which belong to this in virtue of its own nature" (та rafrrif urapxoira пав' airrt). The objection therefore, that metaphysics is an abstract science,...

...seek at the same time knowledge and the way of attaining knowledge; and neither is easy to get. 18. There is a science which investigates being as being...being. They cut off a part of being and investigate the attributes of this part — this is what the mathematical sciences for instance do. Now since we...

..."There is a science which investigates being qua being and what belongs essentially to it. This science is not the same as any of the so-called special sciences; for none of those sciences examines universally being qua being, but cutting off some part of it, each of them...

...in all categories of being. Cl.H. Bonitz, Index Aristotelicus, sv "kategoria." 59. Cf. Met. 1003a21: "There is a science which investigates being as being...belong to this in virtue of its own nature. . . . Now since we are seeking the first principles and the highest causes, clearly there must be some thing...

...in the writings of Aristotle. 2 Book T of Aristotle's Metaphysics begins with the following passage: There is a science which investigates being as being...own nature. Now this is not the same as any of the so called special sciences; for none of these others treats universally of being as being. They cut...

...excellence of the science of metaphysics, which is the science that leads to wisdom, is being as such. There is a science which investigates being as being...so-called special sciences; for none of these others treats universally of being as being. They cut off a part of being and investigate the attribute of...

...Aristotle's description of first or primary philosophy, ie metaphysics, in Metaphysics IV. 1 1003a 21-22: "There is a science which investigates being as being...which belong to this in virtue of its own nature." (Barnes 1985 r : 1584). The author therefore mistook Aristotle's description of metaphysics for a definition...

...science that studies being insofar as it is being,1 and also the properties of being in its own right. It is not the same as any of the socalled special sciences. For none of them considers being quite generally, insofar as it is being; rather, each of them cuts off some part...

...we are introduced to the study of being qua being: There is a science which investigates being qua being and the attributes which belong to this in virtue of its own nature. (r 1, 1003a21-22)* Aristotle makes at least one thing perfectly plain: this science is not limited...