Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 27 No. 4, 2007.
Original scientific paper
Aristotle’s Principle of Non-contradiction in Metaphysics Γ. 3
Ivan Stublić
Abstract
In Metaphysics Γ. 3 the principle of non-contradiction (PN) is revealed as the principle of thought but also as the principle of all beings. Thus, it has two aspects – ontical and logical. These aspects are expressed by different formulations of PN which can be found in Γ. 3. It cannot be said that any aspect has primacy, because each one bears necessary relation with the other: thinking is the thinking of being and being is that which is thought in the thinking. PN is distinguished as the firmest principle because it is that which is necessarily the most knowable. Knowability of this principle does not depend on some subjective-psychological conditions, but on the fact that the PN is that which is constitutive in every knowledge, and that follows from its onto-logical nature.
Keywords
Aristotle; principle of non-contradiction; logical; ontological; thinking; being; substance
Hrčak ID:
19709
URI
Publication date:
28.1.2008.
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