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- Aristotle does not believe that the purpose of logic is to prove that human beings can have knowledge. (He dismisses excessive scepticism.) The aim of logic is the elaboration of a coherent system that allows us to investigate, classify, and evaluate good and bad forms of reasoning.
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Oct 18, 2001 · Aristotle famously distinguishes four ‘causes’ (or causal factors in explanation), the matter, the form, the end, and the agent (§2 a), and discriminates sharply between regular, natural events and those brought about by chance, which resist full or proper explanation (§2 b).
Sep 25, 2008 · Aristotle’s attitude towards explanation is best understood first by considering a simple example he proposes in Physics ii 3. A bronze statue admits of various different dimensions of explanation.
Apr 25, 2019 · Aristotle’s explanation opposes the final cause (the function to be served by an organ) to the material cause or matter (the nature of the materials available to constitute that organ). The final cause is at the same time the essence of the organ, its formal cause: what it is, is an eye, and what an eye is, is an organ for seeing.
1. Demonstration and Explanation. (a) The Structure of Science. So far, we have examined Aristotle's attitude to the scope and applicability of the various explanatory categories. Now we turn to his account of the logical structure of explanation in Posterior Analytics.
May 26, 2006 · Aristotle had a lifelong interest in the study of nature. He investigated a variety of different topics, ranging from general issues like motion, causation, place and time, to systematic explorations and explanations of natural phenomena across different kinds of natural entities.
Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, who made important contributions to logic, criticism, rhetoric, physics, biology, psychology, mathematics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics. He was a student of Plato for twenty years but is famous for rejecting Plato’s theory of forms.
Part 1. Our treatise proposes to find a line of inquiry whereby we shall be able to reason from opinions that are generally accepted about every problem propounded to us, and also shall ourselves, when standing up to an argument, avoid saying anything that will obstruct us.
