Aristotle
saidundated
Philosophy is the science of truth.
— Quotations from Aristotle are often cited by Bekker numbers, which are keyed to the original Greek and therefore independent of the
Aristotle
4th-century BCE Classical Greek philosopher and polymath
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Lived -384–-322, aged 62
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He tutored Alexander the Great, founded a school that shaped two millennia of thought, and wrote the first systematic study of logic — yet only a third of his work survived, none of it meant for publication.
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Born in Stagira in 384 BC, Aristotle lost his father as a child and was raised by a guardian. At eighteen he entered Plato's Academy in Athens, staying until thirty-seven. After Plato's death in 347 BC, he left the city and later tutored Philip II's son, Alexander, beginning in 343 BC. He returned to Athens to establish the Lyceum and its library, producing hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls across philosophy, natural sciences, politics, linguistics, psychology, and the arts. His synthesis of prior philosophies set the groundwork for modern science, and his physical theories held until the E…
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Aristotle
saidundated
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
— Letter to Alexander the Great as quoted by William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Ch. 2, Sect. 2
Aristotle
saidundated
Nature does not do anything in vain.
— Quotations from Aristotle are often cited by Bekker numbers, which are keyed to the original Greek and therefore independent of the
Aristotle
saidundated
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
— I.13, 78a.22
Aristotle
saidundated
The premises of demonstrative knowledge must be true, primary, immediate, more knowable than and prior to the conclusion, which is further related to them as effect to cause...
— I.2, 71b.9 sqq
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