斯特劳森在《个体》中提出的描述性形而上学与修正性形而上学的区分对20世纪后半叶分析哲学的走向产生了重要影响。正是基于斯特劳森的这个区分,我们可以从范畴之是与潜能现实之是的区分这一角度去解析亚里士多德。在相当程度上,亚里士多德对范畴之是的研究是描述性形而上学,而他对潜能现实之是的研究则是修正性形而上学。然而,以主谓关系为核心概念结构的描述性形而上学只是相对于印欧语系而言的,不是普遍的。我们应该发展一门以中文思维结构为对象的描述性形而上学,这样的研究必定可以使中国哲学对形而上学做出特有的贡献。 The distinction between descriptive metaphysics and corrective metaphysics proposed by Strawson in “The Individual” had an important influence on the direction of analytic philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. It is based on this distinction of Strawson that we can analyze Aristotle from the point of view of the distinction between category and potential reality. To a certain extent, Aristotle’s research on category is descriptive metaphysics, and his research on the underlying reality is the revision of metaphysics. However, descriptive metaphysics based on the concept of subject-predicate relationship is only relative to the Indo-European languages, and not universal. We should develop a descriptive metaphysics that takes the Chinese thinking structure as an object. Such a study can certainly make Chinese philosophy uniquely contribute to metaphysics.