| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Everything in Everything; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Fundamental Items in the Ontology; 1.1. Opposites, Stuffs, and Seeds; 1.2. Does Matter "Matter" to Anaxagoras?; 1.3. The Concreteness of Power; 1.4. Parmenidean Constraints on Change; 1.5. The Causal Efficacy of the Opposites; 1.6. An Early Power Ontology?; 1.7. Closing Remarks; 1.A. Appendix: Anaxagorean versus Aristotelian Powers; 2. The Principles Governing the Ontology; 2.1. The Principle of Universal Extraction; 2.2. The Everything-in-Everything Principle |
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2.3. The No-Least and No-Largest Principles2.4. The Preponderance Principle: The Mechanism of Preponderance; 2.5. The Outcome of Preponderance; 2.6. Closing Remarks; 3. A Theory of Extreme Mixture; 3.1. The Inseparability of All Opposites; 3.2. Power Gunk; 3.3. Divided Gunk; 3.4. Gunk's Location in Space; 3.5. The Grind Model; 3.6. Can There Be Preponderance in a Gunky World?; 3.7. Closing Remarks; 3.A. Appendix: An Overview of Anaxagoras's Main Metaphysical Principles; 4. Compresence versus Containment of the Opposites; 4.1. The Proportionate Interpretation |
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4.2. The Particulate Interpretation4.3. The Liquids Model; 4.4. The No-Divisibility Interpretation; 4.5. Closing Remarks; 4.A. Appendix: Zeno's Argument from Multitude; 5. Intelligent Powers; 5.1. The Unmixed Status of Nous; 5.2. The Structure and Operation of Nous; 5.3. Nous's Cosmic Powers; 5.4. Nous's Cognitive Powers; 5.5. The Seeds and the Origins of Life; 5.6. Closing Remarks; 6. Stoic Gunk; 6.1. Unlimited Division; 6.2. Colocation; 6.3. The Constitution of Material Bodies: What Is Active and What Is Passive; 6.4. Sharing Subjects; 6.5. Causation; 6.6. Types of Ontological Unity |
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6.7. Closing RemarksConclusions; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum |
| Summary |
The book argues that Anaxagoras's theory of extreme mixture, with a share of everything in everything, is underpinned by an ontology of physical causal powers (the opposites), which exist as endlessly partitioned. Anaxagoras is thus the first ante litteram 'gunk lover' in the history of metaphysics; his reality is atomless |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 07, 2019) |
| Subject |
Anaxagoras.
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| SUBJECT |
Anaxagoras fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190611996 |
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0190611995 |
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9780190611989 |
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0190611987 |
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