TY - JOUR AU - Zylstra, Justin PY - 2015/07/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Dependence and Fundamentality JF - Studia Philosophica Estonica JA - SPE VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.12697/spe.2014.7.2.02 UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/spe/article/view/spe.2014.7.2.02 SP - 5-28 AB - <p>I argue that dependence is neither necessary nor sufficient for relative fundamentality. I then introduce the notion of 'likeness in nature' and provide an account of relative fundamentality in terms of it and the notion of dependence. Finally, I discuss some puzzles that arise in Aristotle's <em>Categories</em>, to which the theory developed is applied.</p> ER -