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This is a partial examined life episode 336.

Part 2. So really the fourth weekly installment in our Aristotle

Metaphysics series. We're continuing on a book,

Gamma. After initial summary of the issues that we were going to be

covering in this full discussion.

We had gotten through what it is to study being,

qua being, that it's about studying being something in particular,

that it's about studying unity,

the primary being is really what being is all about and everything, whether it's

descriptions about being or properties of being or anything else,

pervasions of being, all those relate back to primary being,

and that's why they're beings in the first place.

So here we are now in chapter 3 of Book Gamma.

We're making this transition to talking about the principle of non-contradiction.

So towards the end of Section 3, I think, he's going to say, hey, okay, so we've discussed

everything that falls under metaphysics.

You know, we've established there is a science of metaphysics and we've

established that what is it studying?

It's studying substance.

Now he's going to say, but it belongs to it to look at the principles of syllogism.

And when I was younger, is not prepared for what seemed like that left turn, is left turn the right way to put in. That was surprising to me that he

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