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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2023

Marilù Papandreou
Marilù Papandreou
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Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

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Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts , pp. 297 - 300
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Print publication year: 2023
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Subject Index

accidental compound, 18–19, 116, 118, 121–123, 147–149, 225–226
addition, 111–117, 135
Alexander of Aphrodisias, 8, 23, 37, 37, 60–61, 92, 148, 241
alteration (alloiôsis), 83, 104, 111–112, 115–117, 118–119, 125–126, 131, 153, 157, 244, 246–247
anhomoiomera, 105, 166, 189, 208, 230, 254
animal artefacts, 7, 94, 99–100, 277
Antiphon, 206–207, 256, 263
art, 88–92
art analogy, 13–14, 44–45, 76–81, 148, 183, 261, 268
as external principle, 84–85, 93–94, 135, 151–161, 163–165, 206–207, 209, 256–258, 261–263
performative, 82
and productive branches of knowledge, 95–96
stochastic, 91–92
artisan
divine craftsman, 34–36, 39–41, 43–46, 50, 69–70, 81–82, 100
man educated in the art, 97
manual worker, 9, 96–97
master-artisan, 96–97
ordinary practitioner, 97
Asclepius of Tralles, 148, 201, 239
automata, 87, 152–153, 259, 261
blending, 115, 117, 221, 223, 224
blood, 189–190, 205
as natural mixture, 104
cause/causation
coincidental vs per se, 42, 77, 84–85, 158, 207
efficient cause, 67, 68–70, 77–78, 80–81, 136, 143, 150–167, 173, 182, 186, 195–199, 200, 237, 258, 261–262, 264, 279
final cause. See teleology
formal cause. See form
moving cause. See cause/causation: efficient cause
theory of the four causes, 14, 21, 76–81, 159, 261, 270
chance, 83, 94, 100–104, 107, 274–275
choice, 95, 96, 99, 129, 135, 151, 205
coming-to-be, 21–22, 27
perpetual vs intermittent, 68, 178–179
qualified, 84–86, 137, 151–157
by spontaneity, 101–103, 139–140, 146, 176, 179, 183
unqualified, 123, 188
artificial production, 107, 110–120, 125–136, 138–147, 157–161, 241–242, 243–248, 277
as opposed to other productions, 92–95, 97–100
as opposed to reasoning, 120
composition theory, 56, 242–243
contact, 40, 122, 220, 227–229, 230, 232, 236, 239, 252–253, 256–258
contiguity, 122, 228
continuity, 122–123, 211, 220, 227, 229–230, 236, 239, 252–259, 264
corpse, 211–213
definition, 123, 143
of artefacts, 183, 210, 213, 223–225, 265
dihairetic method, 48–50, 52–54
in actuality, 71, 184, 225
in potentiality, 184
and unity of the object, 54–55, 217
deformity, 239
deliberation. See choice
Democritus, 119, 166, 211, 221–223, 238
desire, 90–91, 96, 129, 135, 151
desired object, 86
differentia, 16, 221–225, 229–230, 231–232, 237, 242–243, 246–247, 252–253, 258, 259
composition, 111, 112, 115, 117, 118, 148, 214, 221, 247, 249, 250, 265, 269–270, 273
gluing, 115, 117, 122, 221, 224, 229–232, 237, 252–253, 258
nailing, 115, 117, 221, 224, 232, 252
place, 221, 224
position, 125, 132, 223–224, 234
rare and dense, 116, 117, 247
rough and smooth, 103, 117, 222, 245–247, 275
time, 117–118, 148, 221, 224
tying, 115, 117, 221, 224, 229, 231, 237, 252–253
dunamis
as external principle, 93–96, 99–100, 153–155
as potentiality for form, 143–147
as vital heat, 164
ekeininon, 125–128, 135, 147, 148
elements, 16, 20, 26, 27, 48, 77, 81, 128, 168, 170, 171, 179, 192, 204, 219–220, 225–226, 234, 239, 241, 243, 247, 249, 262
as homoiomera, 105–108
as matter of man, 159, 187
as remote matter, 194, 205
embryo, 161, 166–167, 206, 257
eternity, 17, 38, 73–74, 174–180, 278
eternal beings, 24, 51–52, 62, 73, 74, 178–179, 185, 200
vs longevity, 250
of movement, 25
in species, 51, 73, 172, 174, 176–178
experience, 91–92, 94–96, 97–99, 143, 277
father, 142, 145–146, 163, 166
as efficient cause, 66, 68–69, 72, 136, 156, 159–160
as interchangeable with the semen, 164, 167
female
female parent, 156, 163, 201, 203
as Platonic division, 40, 53
force, 205, 239, 252–254
form, 46–48
as function, 181–187, 200, 208, 210, 265–268, 270–274, 278–280
as shape (morphê), 63, 64, 253
in the mind of the artisan
as art, 120, 151–161
as formula, 61, 90, 96, 120, 143, 146
as universal, 91, 95, 97, 98, 142–143
found-objects, 7, 123–125, 273–274, 277
Freeland, Cynthia, 189–191
function. See form
Furth, Montgomery, 18, 219, 225
growth, 83, 85, 113–114, 116, 152, 157, 255–258, 259, 260
health, 10, 38, 67–68, 84, 92, 95, 97, 126, 129–130, 143, 154, 158–160, 170, 205, 248, 268
Health itself, 59–60, 68, 72
spontaneously generated, 45, 101–102, 139–141
heap, 18, 109, 128, 179, 218, 220, 227–229, 234, 236–237, 239, 272–273
heart, 22, 148, 150, 161, 165–167, 200, 211, 261
heavenly bodies, 16, 17, 20, 23, 51, 168, 178, 243, 250, 255, 280
homoiomera, 149, 166, 215, 240–241, 242
as mixtures, 103–108, 241
as simple bodies, 16, 168, 228
homonymy principle, 188–189, 207–214, 216–217, 234
Ideas
as efficient causes, 67–68, 71, 72–73, 137
as eternal, 33, 36, 39, 71, 72–73
as objects of knowledge, 58, 64, 72
imitation, 34, 42–46, 56, 78, 81, 82
art imitates nature, 14, 22, 42, 78–81, 88, 267
impulse, 84, 102, 151, 205, 254
inadvertently made objects, 100–103, 113, 247
inquiry, 94, 99
Kosman, Aryeh, 18, 109, 219, 225–226, 235, 260–261
likeness, 33–34, 36, 40–41, 42–46, 78, 81, 82
locomotion, 85–87, 153, 154
luck, 92, 100
mathematical objects, 23, 230, 242–243, 270
menstrual fluid (katamênia), 114, 144, 164, 165, 167, 187–188, 189–190, 195, 200–201, 204, 206, 215, 216
Michael of Ephesus, 129, 131, 134, 148, 203, 224, 224, 239
mixture. See homoiomera
multifunctional objects, 268, 271–273
mutilation, 27, 176, 211, 229, 248
nature
definition of, 15, 21, 83–87, 106, 152, 168, 256
necessity, 40, 183, 205
absolute, 103, 197–198
hypothetical, 14, 90, 182, 196, 199, 201, 210
organic adhesion, 232, 257
organic unity, 228, 239, 257–258
participation, 42–44, 55–56, 67–68, 78
passing-away, 172–173, 186, 188, 206, 217
artefacts’ destruction, 243–250
perception, 10, 107, 143
Philoponus, 245, 247
plants, 10, 16, 17, 35, 46, 50, 81, 99, 111, 114, 168, 169, 176, 205, 242, 243, 248, 249, 250, 257, 271
domesticated, 88, 276
Plato, 63, 70, 71–74, 75–76, 78–79, 87, 96, 109–110, 114, 170–171, 173, 220, 236
quality, 84, 92, 111, 121, 137, 222, 224, 245–248, 250, 257
quantity, 111, 114, 116, 137, 230, 250, 257
ready-mades, 7, 277
reason (nous), 93–96, 97–99
separation, 178–179, 268
in the categorical sense, 70, 71
in definition, 70–71
Platonic, 25, 33–34, 47, 61, 71, 172–174, 175–178, 243
change of shape, 103, 111, 115, 125, 236, 247, 274, 275
ship, of Theseus, 3, 279–280
soul, 51, 176, 237, 242, 255
of the artisan, 94, 120, 140, 145, 152, 153
as efficient cause, 164, 168–169, 181–182, 259
as efficient, final and formal cause, 156–157, 168, 186
Plato’s account of, 40
as primary substance, 17, 18, 169
release of, 248–249
as unmoved mover, 86–87
sperma (seed, semen), 111, 113–114, 138, 187–188, 193, 200, 203–205
plants seed, 88, 203, 204, 205
semen as a tool, 143–147
semen vs tool, 161–165
spontaneity. See chance
strigil, 124, 250, 259, 266, 273, 274
substances
according to the Categories, 10–12, 16, 72, 92
agreed-upon, 16, 47–48, 51, 72, 168, 178–180, 234, 243
most of all (malista), 17, 19, 169, 243
subtraction, 111, 112, 114–115, 117, 131, 236
synonymy principle, 68–70, 72, 136–138, 159, 171–172, 245
as applied to artefacts, 121, 138–147, 150, 151, 161
teleology, 13–14, 22, 41–42, 50, 77–78, 80–81, 99, 121, 156–157, 181–187, 197–198, 209–214, 223, 265, 267–268, 269–273, 278–280
thought (dianoia), 93–95, 100, 129–130, 158–160
tools, 109, 129, 138, 143–147, 167
vs semen, 167
transmission theory, 150, 161–167
universal vs particular, 41, 44, 61, 65, 70–71
user, 7, 20, 38, 70, 125, 152–153, 157, 186, 209, 250, 259–261, 265–268, 271, 273
whole, 55–57, 123, 222, 279–280
Witt, Charlotte, 79, 184, 260

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  • Subject Index
  • Marilù Papandreou, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
  • Book: Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts
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  • Marilù Papandreou, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
  • Book: Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts
  • Online publication: 14 December 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009340557.013
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