Aristotle's Limitations

If we are to regret anything in Aristotle, it lies in his willingness to remain contented with an enumeration of separate concepts and principles and not to press onwards to the highest conceptual integrations.  It is this stopping short at a list that makes him into a clipped, truncated, dismembered Platonist, with a queer desire to parade instantialist convictions with which he is not deeply in accord, even if superb PLatonic insights are always shining forth in his writings (Plato, The Written and the Unwritten Doctrines, p. 366).