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Aristotle and the Finitude of Natural Kinds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Herbert Granger
Herbert Granger
Affiliation:
Wayne State University
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Philosophy , Volume 62 , Issue 242 , October 1987 , pp. 523 - 526
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1987

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References

1 E.g., Marjorie, Grene, ‘Aristotle and Modern Biology’, Journal of the History of Ideas 33, (1972), 397; A Portrait of Aristotle (University of Chicago Press, 1963), 87; 231 ff.Google Scholar

2 ‘The scala naturae 2and the Continuity of Kinds’, Phronesis 30, (1985), 181-200.Google Scholar

3 For just a few of the many important expressions, outside the discussion of infinity in Phys. 111.4-8, of Aristotle's distaste for the infinite, see: GA I.1.715b 14-15,phys. I.6.189all-13, VIII.6.259alO-12, Met. II.2.994b 16-31, IX.6.1048b9-17.

4 Granger, 184, 192-193.