- Introduction
- Dialectical Disputations
- Book I
- Proem
- 1. Predicaments and transcendentals, what and how many?
- 2. The meaning of the six called ‘transcendental,’ and proof that ‘thing’ is chief among them, while the rest are not transcendental
- 3. Except in a few special cases, the term ‘concrete’ means nothing
- 4. Nouns in -ness or -ity come from adjectives, not substantives, and not from all adjectives.
- 5. There is no difference between ‘essence’ and ‘to be,’ and likewise with other terms like ‘will’ and ‘to will.’
- 6. On distinguishing the use of these words, ‘essence’ and ‘substance,’ so that our speech is not tangled in confusions
- 7. The classification of substance: Against Porphyry and others
- 8. On Spirit and on God and angels
- 9. On the soul
- 10. On virtues
- 11. On body
- 12. On matter and form and the composite
- 13. On accident and that nine predicaments reduce to two, quality and action
- 14. On qualities cognized by the senses
- 15. On qualities grasped by perceptions
- 16. On action, motion and the verb ‘to be’
- 17. That the rest of the predicaments reduce either to substance or to quality or to action
- 18. Whether ‘more’ and ‘less’ fall under quality and not under substance
- 19. ‘Middle’ comes between what?
- 20. On definition, description, etymology and property
- Book I
- Note on the Text
- Notes to the Text
- Abbreviations
- Notes to the Translation
- Bibliography
- Index
THE I TATTI RENAISSANCE LIBRARY
The I Tatti Renaissance Library 49
Dialectical Disputations, Volume 1
Book I
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