I have now made the entire text The Method to Science, Book I, available online! Rather than continue to make each less available piecemeal, which I can do later (it is rather tedious to reformat and tailor everything to HTML), the entire text is now available as a PDF. It can be downloaded here: https://jonathanvajda.com/the-method-to-science/

I intend to create the next layer (updating spelling, such as ‘meerly’ -> ‘merely’, ‘compleat’ -> ‘complete’) after I finish the remaining books. There is so much to say by way of commentary. Much of what he offers is a fairly clear and straightforward case for Aristotelian philosophy and Thomistic Christian metaphysics. I’ll be brief for now, but here are a few tidbits of some odd or interesting contours of the text:

• Addresses puzzles of non-entities and negations, and our meanings of such terms if they are truly nothing
• Argues that nature abhors a vacuum, contra the Epicureans
• Justifies his use of the 10 Categories (of Aristotle), clarifying along the way common misunderstandings and arguing against competing views (e.g., about absolute place, relative place, etc.)
• Distinguishes between habits and dispositions
• Clarifies why God is said to be eternal if there is no ‘before’ the Creation of the universe
• Explains how many angels can fit on the head of a pin (sort of), and why
• Warns against common misunderstandings of words and getting caught up in logomachy (arguments over meanings of words)

And that’s not all!