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• Title:
  An Ontology for the In-Between of Motion: Aristotle’s Reaction to Zeno’s Arguments
• Creator:
  Crubellier, Michel
• Description:
  This paper proposes an interpretation of Books V and VI of Aristotle’s Physics as being (at least partly) a reaction to Zeno’s four “arguments against motion” that Aristotle expounds and discusses in Phys. VI 9. On the basis of a detailed textual analysis of that chapter, I show that Zeno’s arguments rest on a frame of a priori notions such as part and whole, in contact, between, limit, etc., which Aristotle takes over in order to account for the inner structure (here called “the In-Between”) common to all facts of motion and change. That frame allows him to develop a specific ontology for that inner structure – although it exists only potentially according to the Aristotelian orthodoxy – because he needs such an ontology in order to vindicate the reality of motion and change.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Michel Crubellier
• Date:
  2021.12.13
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Articles;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021); 123–150;
  Peitho. Examina Antiqua; Tom 12 Nr 1 (2021); 123–150;
  2082-7539
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/30465/26948
• Subject:
  Aristotle;
  Aristotle’s Physics;
  change. continuous;
  dialectic;
  infinite;
  motion;
  ontology;
  time;
  Zeno of Elea
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/peitho/article/view/30465
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text