Aristotle's concept of chance : accidents, cause, necessity, and determinism / John Dudley.

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Aristotle�s Concept of Chance -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. CHANCE IN THE PHYSICS OF ARISTOTLE:THE METAPHYSICS OF CHANCE -- 1. THE DOCTRINE OF PHYS. II, iv-vi -- (i) Context and method -- (ii) Terminology -- (iii) Only unusual occurrences come about by chance -- (iv) Chance refers to events -- (v) Some events are meaningful and others are not -- (vi) Chance events are both unusual and meaningful -- (vii) Chance is a cause -- (viii) Chance is an accidental cause that is meaningful

(Ix) Chance as an accidental cause can pertain to any category(x) Chance events are inherently unpredictable -- (xi) The relationship of Ï?Ï?Ï?η to Ï?ÎÏ?Î?η; their outcomes are contingent -- (xii) Both good luck and bad luck are meaningful -- (xiii) Good luck -- (xiv)The distinction between Ï?Ï?Ï?η and Ï?αá??Ï?ÏŒÎ?αÏ?οÎ? -- (xv) The relationship of Ï?αá??Ï?ÏŒÎ?αÏ?οÎ? to Î?ÎƠÏ?ηÎ? -- (xvi) Substances generated counter to nature fall und Ï?αá??Ï?ÏŒÎ?αÏ?οÎ? -- (xvii) Chance, Î?οá¿?Ï? and Ï?Ï?Ï?ιÏ? -- 2. THE STRUCTURE OF PHYS. II, iv-vi

3. DATING PHYS. II, iv-vi(a) Texts in which Ï?Ï?Ï?η covers all of chance -- (b) Î?Ï?Ï?η in Aristotleâ€?s mature metaphysical writings -- (i) the meaning of Ï?αá??Ï?ÏŒÎ?αÏ?οÎ? ÎðαΠ̄Ï?Ï?Ï?η -- (ii) Inconclusive passages in the later metaphysical writings -- (iii) The sources of generation -- (iv) Note on Met. K -- (v) Conclusion -- 4. NECESSITY AND CHANCE -- (a) Aristotleâ€?s concept of necessity -- (i) Introduction -- (ii) Absolute necessity -- (iii) Final causes are not derived by absolute necessity -- (iv) The necessity of the Unmoved Mover

(V) Hypothetical necessity(vi) Degrees of hypothetical necessity -- (vii) Force -- (viii) Fate -- (ix) The correspondence of the four causes to absolute and hypothetical necessity -- (x) The coincidence of hypothetical and absolute necessity -- (xi) The distinction in subject-matter and method betweenphysics and the other two theoretical sciences -- (xii) Accidents occur by absolute and notby hypothetical necessity -- (xiii) There is no science of the unusual accident -- (xiv) Necessity in relation to man

(B) Necessity and chance: Aristotle�s criticism of the Presocratics(ii) Necessity and chance in Democritus -- (iii) Conclusion -- (a) Additional note on Phys. VIII, iv (cf. n. 86 supra). -- (b) Additional note on Plato's concept of chance (cf. n. 172 supra). -- (c) Additonal note on Empedocles' zoogony (cf. n. 182 supra). -- (d) Additional note on Phys. II, iv, 196 a 28-33 (cf. supra n. 191). -- 5. THE CAUSES OF THAT WHICH OCCURS BY CHANCE -- (a) Chance events -- (b) Monsters -- (c) Spontaneous generation -- (i) The vocabulary of spontaneous generation

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