Aristotelian predicables, universality and realism: the logic of comparison in topics as denying the view that Aristotle was a realist

Aristotle is reportedly held to have been a Moderate Realist in that he would maintain that a concept derives from an act of grasping a mind-independent universal object that exists somehow inside of the many different things which the concept is predicated of. As far as a universal is independent of mind, it would stand for the proper object of a concept that subsumes a given number of things as its own instantiations. But we claim that Aristotle rejected such a view and instead did perceive and comprehend universality as a feature of thought rather than as a feature of reality in its own right. As showed in the chapters of Topics regarding the so-called logic of comparison (with the support of Albert the Great’s commentary), each predicate can be more or less consistent with the attribute of the subject of which it may be predicated. Both essential and accidental attributes assume a definite degree of being related to the degree of belonging to substance. Unlike particular things, the universality of a concept is to be understood always in comparison with another concept according to a hierarchy of predicates in terms of universality degree arranged by comparative terms such as ‘more’, ‘less’, and ‘likewise’. What is really mind-independent are the truth conditions which make a universal true when exclusively referring to a set of things identically meant by the same predicate whose universality is given by the place occupied in the hierarchy of predicates.

Sir Thomas Elyots̓ The defence of good women,

"The defence of good women was first published in 1540. The only known copy of this edition is in the Henry E. Huntington library; this copy is here reproduced in a line-for-line and letter-for-letter reprint."--Introd., p. viii.

Gitanjali : song-offerings /

For voice and piano.

Gitanjali. [music] : (song-offerings) /

For voice and piano.

Loimologia or An historical account of the plague in London in 1665 : with precautionary directions against the like contagion /

Mode of access: Internet.

Early western travels, 1748-1846; a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement,

Vol. 25 (81 plates, fold. map) 53 cm.

Genesis;

History series. Book I. The beginning of things -- Book II. The chosen people as a patriarchal family.

The federal farm loan system, new method of farm mortgage finance, under national supervision; a practical manual upon organizing and conducting national farm loan associations, also joint stock land banks... /

Mode of access: Internet.

The marketing of farm products /

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Federal trade commission on sugar supply and prices.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Federal trade commission on milk and milk products, 1914-1918.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Federal trade commission on the causes of high prices of farm implements.

Mode of access: Internet.

Evolution of futures trading.

Bibliography: p. 90-95.

Hawaii's crop parade; a review of useful products derived from the soil in the Hawaiian islands, past and present,

Mode of access: Internet.