Chapter III: Quiddity in Itself in the Concrete World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter I: Pure Quiddity in Context 19
6. Chapter II: Quiddity in Itself and Mental Existence 79
7. Chapter III: Quiddity in Itself in the Concrete World 265
8. Chapter IV: The Special Ontological Mode of Quiddity in Itself 424
9. Chapter V: The Divine Origin of Pure Quiddity 631
10. Conclusion 716
11. Appendix 1: The Avicennian terminology of pure quiddity 723
12. Appendix 2: The existence of pure quiddity: A list of textual references 725
13. Appendix 3: Quiddity and Avicenna’s matrices of distinctions 727
14. Bibliography 728
15. Index of Names and Places 747
16. Index of Technical Terms 749