John Deely insists that Aristotle’s framework is not dualistic but trialistic. Against the widespread simplification that reduces his philosophy to a doctrine of matter and form—hylomorphism—Deely reminds us that Aristotle posits threeinseparable principles: “matter (hyle), form (morphe), and privation (steresis).” As Deely writes, “privation gets more or less swept aside in the history of philosophy, and the…
Tag: Narration
From Abstract Syntax to Semantic Concreteness
To narrate means to construct a world. Eco affirms this, and adds that such a world must be “so concrete that one can imagine stepping into it.” A world that stands “before our eyes,” where even the smallest details can be perceived, and that becomes populated with words almost spontaneously, as soon as we visualize…

