Being Measured

Mark R. Wheeler is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He is the coeditor (with William A. Nericcio) of 150 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Impact on Contemporary Thought and Culture.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Stating the PuzzlesThe KnotsMy Approach to the Metaphysics Part I. Philosophical Wisdom and Truth1. The Demands of Philosophical WisdomThe Divine ScienceHitting the Barn DoorBeing, Truth, and CausalityThe Beta TestConclusionPart II. Truth and the Logical Axioms2. What "Truth" and "Falsehood" SignifyThe Canonical Definition of Truth in ContextKinds of DefinitionArguing for the AxiomsAristotle's Fundamental Philosophical SemanticsAristotle's OpponentsThe Nominal Definition of "Truth"What the Nominal Definitions EntailConclusion3. The Nominal Definition of "Truth" and the AxiomsTruth and the Law of the Excluded MiddleSimple Assertions and Contradictory PairsIntermediate Assertions and LNCThe Elenctic Argument at 1011b23−29 and the Nominal DefinitionsConclusionPart III. Truth and Being4. The Being of TruthTruth is a Kind of BeingBeing True is not Being a Kind of ObjectMatthen's ProposalBeing a True AssertionTruth and the Other Kinds of BeingConclusion5. Aristotle's Homonymous Truth BearersThe Homonymous Kinds of Truth and FalsehoodTrue and False AssertionsTrue and False ThingsAristotle's Core Kind of Truth and FalsehoodConclusion6. The Genus of TruthIdentifying the GenusThe Category of the Genus of TruthAn Outstanding Problem: True Definitions of EssencesConclusion7. The Activity of TruthTrue Assertions about SimplesThe Core Kind of Truth Redux The Power and Activity of TruthConclusionPart IV. Truth and Measurement8. Truth, Oneness, and MeasurementThe Extension of the Term "One"The Intension of the Term "One"Metaphysics Δ 6 on Oneness and MeasureConclusion9. The Ground of TruthThe Measure and the MeasuredAristotle's Measure DoctrineAristotle's Metrical Account of the Correspondence RelationAristotle's Asymetrical Measurement RelationConclusionConclusion: The Subsequent Free Play of ThoughtNotesBibliographyIndexIndex Locorum

"The book's scholarship is impeccable." — CHOICE"Wheeler's book constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on Aristotle's theory of truth and falsehood. The book offers much in terms of how to read the Metaphysics itself, and Wheeler's interpretation will strike some as defending a rather controversial and complex thesis centered around the idea that the Metaphysics ought to be read as a more systematically and philosophically unified document with the articulation of a robust theory of truth at the center of the entire work. Wheeler offers much food for thought." — Blake Hestir, author of Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth