Preface
Introduction
STUDY I. PREDICTION AND IMMANENCE: ANAXAGORAS, PLATO, EUDOXUS, AND ARISTOTLE
1. Introduction
2. Anaxagoras
3. Plato
3.1 Immanentist Language in the Early Dialogues
3.2 The Phaedo
3.2.1 The Safe Theory
3.2.2 The Extended Theory
3.2.3 The Parmenides and the Academy
4. Eudoxus and Aristotle
4.1 Aristotle, Metaphysics A 9.991a14-19 and Its Context
4.2 Alexander in Metaphysica 97.2-19: The Position
4.3 Alexander in Metaphysica 97.19-98.24: The Objections
4.3.1 Objection (3), 98.2-9
4.3.2 Objection (4), 98.10-16
4.3.3 Objection (2), 98.1-2
4.3.4 Objection (5), 98.16-19
4.3.5 Objection (1), 97.30-98.1
4.3.6 Objection (7), 98.21
4.3.7 Objection (6), 98.19-20
5. Plato Again
6. Appendix: Anaxagoras' Seeds
6.1 Anaxagoras Fr. 4
6.2 Aristotle
6.3 Simplicius
6.4 Conclusion
STUDY II. ANCIENT NON-BEINGS: SPEUSIPPUS AND OTHERS
1. Introduction
2. Ancient Non-Academic Meinongianism
2.1 Atomists
2.2 Hellenistic Meinongians
2.2.1 Being as the Power of Acting in the Sophist
2.2.2 Epicurus
2.2.3 Stoics
3. Speusippus
3.1 The Levels of Speusippus' Universe
3.2 The One Not Good or Beautiful
3.2.1 The Language of Generation
3.2.2 Seeds and Principles
3.3 The One Not a Being
3.3.1 Ranking the One and Being
3.3.2 The Argument from Simplicity
3.3.3 The Argument from the Principle of Alien Causality
3.4 Speusippus' Rejection of the Theory of Forms
3.5 The Transmission Theory and Self-Predication: Aristotle
3.6 The Construction of Speusippus' Universe
3.7 The Principle of Alien Causality
4. Appendix: Iamblichus, Universal Math iv
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index