1. a26. Unless otherwise noted, all references are to the Oxford translation of The Works of Aristotle. Other translations, however, have also been consulted, including the new Hope translation of the Metaphysics.
2. Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science (Princeton 1949, Princeton University Press), p. 47.
3. Evert W. Beth, “The Prehistory of Research into Foundations” in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. III (1952), p. 58. See especially Sec. 4.
4. W. D. Ross, Aristotle’s Metaphysics ( Oxford 1924, Clarendon Press), Vol. i, p. cxiii.
5. But see e.g.,“The Metaphysics as a whole expresses not a dogmatic system but the adventures of a mind in its search for truth.” — W. D. Ross, op. cit.,Vol. i, p. lxxvii. “If there is any totality for which Aristotle strives it is a totality not of finished knowledge but of problems.” — Werner Jaeger, Aristotle (Oxford 1934, Clarendon Press), p. 375. See also pp. 373–4.