HumanitiesPhilosophyContinental PhilosophyLogicPhilosophy Of LanguageAncient MetaphysicsAristotelian PhilosophyClassical AntiquityPoeticsAristotelian Metaphysics
n this paper, I want to examine two claims found in Aristotle's Metaphysics: (A) the claim that notions like being and unity do not constitute genera and (B) the claim that such notions are not univocally predicable of all things. I want, in particular, to consider the view (expressed by Porphyry, William of Ockham, and J. L. Ackrill) that (A) entails (B). I shall argue that the alleged entailment cannot hold since while (A) is true, (B) is false.