Philosophy (Tetsugaku)
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The Problem of «Nous»
in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics B 19
Masami ITO
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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 46 Pages 31-39,2

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The question how we get to know the first principles of demonstrations seems to be the most crucial in APο. Most of the scholars regard [noes] as Aristotle's answer to it. However, [nous] actually is not the mental faculty by which we get to know the first principles, but is [hexis] in which we know them; that is the definite state of person which is actualized when he/she gets to know them. Then how can we know them? There is no other way than to put our scientific enterprises into practice. The actualization of [nous] depends upon our carrying through them.

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