Explanation and Definition: The Basic Model Reconsidered and Refined

In Aristotle on meaning and essence. New York: Oxford University Press (2000)
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Aristotle's view of the interdependency of explanation and definition rests on a metaphysical thesis: essences are what determine the nature of kinds in such a way as to make their causal structure completely intelligible to us and to locate them in their own distinctive niche in a nexus of genera and species. We can rationally base our understanding of the first principles of science on our understanding of this causally based pattern of kinds. The world, so understood, contains its own intelligible structure, which Aristotle identifies with the Active Intellect.

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