The paradigm of Aristotelian science continues to cause tension between scientific and literary language. Aristotle’s scientific legacy, the dominance of a strictly logical method, disbars and degrades any methodology which it deems not as rigorous. Accordingly, the scientific tradition enthrones the use of unambiguous language because it assumes that Aristotle’s systematic methodology rejects ...

Individual substances are the ground of Aristotle’s ontology. Taking a liberal approach to existence, Aristotle accepts among existents entities in such categories other than substance as quality, quantity and relation; and, within each category, individuals and universals. As I will argue, individual substances are ontologically independent from all these other entities, while all other entiti...

JONATHAN BARNES, MALCOLM SCHOFIELD, and RICHARD SORABJI (editors), Articles on Aristotle. L Science, London, Duckworth, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 224, £3.50 (paperback). Aristotle's science has been, and still is, a contentious issue, and a great deal of close study of his writings still remains to be carried out. However, as an indication of work already done, of opinions projected, and of interpret...

A groundswell of recent work in philosophy has sought to revitalize the analysis of causation by appealing to “active principles” such as powers, dispositions, capacities, tendencies, and propensities. These principles are described in a realist and rather Aristotelian fashion, in stark contrast to the deflationary and linguistic accounts of such principles characteristic of Humean thought and ...

Abstract When it comes to science writing, narrative has attracted little attention. This paper attempts fill this gap by presenting a brief pilot survey on in the Aristotelian Corpus. My main concern here is understand workings of process knowledge creation. Aristotle, apart from his paradigmatic role history knowledge, offers broad and varied corpus. The proceeds three steps: After few introd...

A time delay artificial neural network approach for flow routing in a river system M. J. Diamantopoulou, P. E. Georgiou, and D. M. Papamichail Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece Department of Hydraulics, Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessal...

terence irwin argues that aquinas answered a question that aristotle had raised but had not answered. the question is if there is any relation between intellectual virtues and moral virtues. the answer is yes, moral virtues direct intellectual virtues to attain the final end. moral virtues show in what areas one should think, how much other things should be attended to, and how much one should ...

In contemporary literary theory, Plato is often cited as the original repudiator of truth, and Aristotle he who set down that literature “imitation,” thus himself involuntarily banning from truth. This essay argues these interpretations adulterate arguments Aristotle, both believed in We—literary theorists philosophers literature—should recognize this rethink our interpretation ancient texts. w...

nuchs, children and women have high-pitched voices”. He also made the observation that “Eunuchs never become bald and never present gout”. Aristotle (4-3 c. BC), in a treatise on the nature of the human voice, supports this notion and attributes the voice change to the weakness of the heart due to the ablation of the testicles. His main line of reasoning focuses on the effect testicles were tho...