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Aristotle and crossing the boundaries between the sciences

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On the basis of what Aristotle says in the Posterior Analytics about how sciences are differentiated and about the impermissibility (save in some exceptional cases) of ‘kind-crossing’, many commentators suppose that when it comes to his scientific practice, Aristotle treats the boundaries of the sciences as impermeable, so that if subject-matter X is the business of one science, it simply cannot (save for the exceptional cases) be the business of another. I call this the impermeable boundary ...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
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Publisher:
De Gruyter Publisher's website
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Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Journal website
Volume:
101
Issue:
2
Pages:
177–204
Publication date:
2019-07-01
Acceptance date:
2017-02-28
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1613-0650
ISSN:
0003-9101
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English
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2017-03-22

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