Acknowledgements
I am sincerely grateful to the two anonymous reviewers of my manuscript for providing acute remarks and precious suggestions, thus helping me to clarify several points of my argument; and to Enrico Berti, Carlo Natali, and Christopher Rowe with whom I had the opportunity—and the fortune—to discuss some controversial passages in Aristotle.
I wish to thank the Editors of Philosophia Antiqua, for accepting my work in the series, and the Acquisitions Editor Jennifer Pavelko, for her solicitude, kindness, and friendly cooperation.
My special and sincere thanks are addressed to Davide Del Forno for translating my text into English and discussing with me various questions of translation and interpretation of technical terminology.