"A deduction is a demonstration when the premisses from which the deduction starts are true and primitive, or are such that our knowledge of them has originally come through premisses which are primitive and true." (Aristotle, "Topics", cca. 350 BC)
"A problem that is suitable for argumentative reasoning is one for which there are numerous and good arguments." (Aristotle, "Topics", cca. 350 BC)
"A quantity is infinite if it is such that we can always take a part outside what has been already taken." (Aristotle, "Physics")
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire." (Aristotle)
"But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end." (Aristotle, "Generation of Animals")
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." (Aristotle)
"Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man." (Aristotle)
"Education is the best provision for old age." (Aristotle)
"For generally the infinite has this mode of existence: one thing is always being taken after another, and each thing that is taken is always finite […]." (Aristotle, "Physics")
"For that which is probable is that which generally happens." (Aristotle, "The Art of Rhetoric", 4th century BC)
"For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing." (Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics", Book II, 349 BC)
"[Imagination is] that in virtue of which we say that an image occurs to us and not as we speak of it metaphorically." (Aristotle, "De Anima" III, cca. 350 BC)
"Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge." (Aristotle)
"Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. […] And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has. […] That among entities there must be some cause which moves and combines things. […] There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity." (Aristotle, "Metaphysics", cca. 335-323 BC)
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts." (Aristotle, "Metaphysics", cca. 335-323 BC)
"When the consequences of either assumption are the same, we should always assume that things are finite rather than infinite in number, since in things constituted by nature that which is infinite and that which is better ought, if possible, to be present rather than the reverse […]" (Aristotle)
"While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations." (Aristotle, "De Caelo" ["On the Heavens"], cca. 350 BC)
"Education is the best provision for old age." (Aristotle)
"For generally the infinite has this mode of existence: one thing is always being taken after another, and each thing that is taken is always finite […]." (Aristotle, "Physics")
"For that which is probable is that which generally happens." (Aristotle, "The Art of Rhetoric", 4th century BC)
"For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing." (Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics", Book II, 349 BC)
"[Imagination is] that in virtue of which we say that an image occurs to us and not as we speak of it metaphorically." (Aristotle, "De Anima" III, cca. 350 BC)
"In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause." (Aristotle, "Metaphysics", cca. 335-323 BC)
"Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge." (Aristotle)
"It is impossible that the existence of something [one thing] should necessitate both the existence and the non-existence of something else [i.e., one (same) other thing]." (Aristotle, "Posterior Analytics", cca. 350 BC)
"It is obvious then, that memory belongs to that part of the soul to which imagination belongs. […] Just as the picture painted on the panel is at once a picture and a portrait, and though one and the same, is both, yet the essence of the two is not the same, and it is possible to think of it both as a picture and as a portrait, so in the same way we must regard the mental picture within us both as an object of contemplation in itself and as a mental picture of something else […]. Insofar as we consider it in relation to something else, e.g. as a likeness, it is also an aid to memory." (Aristotle, "De Memoria et Reminiscentia" [On Memory and Recollection], 4th century BC)
"It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible." (Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics", Book II, 349 BC)
"Knowledge, then, is a state of capacity to demonstrate, and has the other limiting characteristics which we specify in the Analytics; for it is when one believes in a certain way and the principles are known to him that he has knowledge, since if they are not better known to him than the conclusion, he will have his knowledge only on the basis of some concomitant." (Aristotle," Nicomachean Ethics", cca. 340 BC)
"It is obvious then, that memory belongs to that part of the soul to which imagination belongs. […] Just as the picture painted on the panel is at once a picture and a portrait, and though one and the same, is both, yet the essence of the two is not the same, and it is possible to think of it both as a picture and as a portrait, so in the same way we must regard the mental picture within us both as an object of contemplation in itself and as a mental picture of something else […]. Insofar as we consider it in relation to something else, e.g. as a likeness, it is also an aid to memory." (Aristotle, "De Memoria et Reminiscentia" [On Memory and Recollection], 4th century BC)
"It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible." (Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics", Book II, 349 BC)
"Knowledge, then, is a state of capacity to demonstrate, and has the other limiting characteristics which we specify in the Analytics; for it is when one believes in a certain way and the principles are known to him that he has knowledge, since if they are not better known to him than the conclusion, he will have his knowledge only on the basis of some concomitant." (Aristotle," Nicomachean Ethics", cca. 340 BC)
"Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. […] And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has. […] That among entities there must be some cause which moves and combines things. […] There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity." (Aristotle, "Metaphysics", cca. 335-323 BC)
"Sense perception is a prerequisite for memory; the memory of frequently repeated sense perceptions results in experimental proof; experimental proofs provide the materials for a science or an art.” (Aristotle)
"So poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history, for while poetry is concerned with universal truth, history treats of particular facts [...]" (Aristotle, "Poetics", cca. 350 BC)
"The infinite is imperfect, unfinished and therefore, unthinkable; it is formless and confused." (Aristotle)
"The intellectual capacity thinks the forms in the phantasmata (mental images) […] And for the following reason, as without having perceptual awareness no one could either learn or understand anything, so when one engages in intellectual activity one must at that time do so by means of a phantasma. For, phantasmata are just as perceptual states (aisthemata) are [in actual external perception] but without matter." (Aristotle, "De Anima" III, cca. 350 BC)
"The infinite is imperfect, unfinished and therefore, unthinkable; it is formless and confused." (Aristotle)
"The intellectual capacity thinks the forms in the phantasmata (mental images) […] And for the following reason, as without having perceptual awareness no one could either learn or understand anything, so when one engages in intellectual activity one must at that time do so by means of a phantasma. For, phantasmata are just as perceptual states (aisthemata) are [in actual external perception] but without matter." (Aristotle, "De Anima" III, cca. 350 BC)
"The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men’s minds not once or twice but again and again." (Aristotle, "De Caelo" ["On the Heavens"], cca. 350 BC)
"The soul never thinks without a picture." (Aristotle)"The whole is more than the sum of its parts." (Aristotle, "Metaphysics", cca. 335-323 BC)
"When the consequences of either assumption are the same, we should always assume that things are finite rather than infinite in number, since in things constituted by nature that which is infinite and that which is better ought, if possible, to be present rather than the reverse […]" (Aristotle)
"While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations." (Aristotle, "De Caelo" ["On the Heavens"], cca. 350 BC)
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