Colloquium 4: Commentary on Wians

Abstract This comment responds to the paper deliver by William Wians, evaluating his reading of book Epsilon of Aristotle’s Metaphysics and the role of Aristotle’s predecessors in the formation of his view, such as the Pythagoreans and Plato. A series of four questions are raised about the nature and strength of Wians’s thesis, providing critical notes on the conclusions of the argument.