(1) The answer to this question may be that Aristotle does not intend Book VI to provide a full answer to that question, but rather to serve as a prolegomenon to an answer.(2) This can be seen as a prolegomenon to making wise women's theories influential.(3) In a philosophical prolegomenon , Schmidt examines twin interpretive narratives that, he argues, have obscured the study of modern hearing.(4) This first chapter is a necessary prolegomenon , but for the casual reader or one unfamiliar with the issues, it would prove hard going.(5) For this reason, theological construction needs no elaborate, foundation-setting, certainty-gaining prolegomenon .(6) That same year, 1981, he published ‘Europa,’ a prolegomenon to Omeros and later work.(7) I make that lengthy prolegomenon in order to ensure that my point is not misunderstood.(8) Most of this essay will be a lengthy digression, a prolegomenon to a much needed investigation of the material specificity of film in relation to the female body and its syntax.(9) Horton's work is a prolegomenon of sorts, though it could be written only in the collapse of modernity.(10) Close reading of classical texts, he believes, ‘is a necessary prolegomenon both to understanding the traditions of Christian culture and to the articulation of constructive theological statements’.(11) We have been attending to ‘exists’ and ‘is’ not for their own sake but purely as a prolegomenon to an ontological question, namely, that of existence.(12) a prolegomenon to the second part(13) To me, they feel like a prolegomena to another volume.(14) He begins with a 1400-page prolegomena , entitled ‘The Doctrine of the Word of God,’ containing a strong emphasis on preaching or church proclamation as the material of dogmatics.(15) The book is organized on a conventional scheme of theological loci, from prolegomena through eschatology.(16) After some elaborate prolegomena , the book follows a calendrical sequence, each poem dated and grouped by month so that the events of a hundred years follow a seasonal ebb and flow, not chronology.