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Scholastic Qualities, Primary and Secondary
The distinction between two kinds of qualities, primary and secondary, is one of the core doctrines of Scholastic natural philosophy. Far from being an invention of the modern era, it is something to which any student of Aristotelian philosophy—which is to say anyone who studied philosophy in a European university up until the eighteenth century—would have been introduced at a tender age. The d...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
سال: 1904
ISSN: 0066-7374,1467-9264
DOI: 10.1093/aristotelian/4.1.141