Aritotle
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Aristotle
By Olivia Mann
Overview
- Aristotle was born in 384 BC in Stagira, Greece
- He also died in 322 BC in Chalcis, Greece
- He studied at Platonic Academy in 367-347 BC
- After Plato(his instructor) died he moved to Lesbos
- He then married Pythias and had a daughter named Pythias
Positive Effects
- "Logic" is Aristotle's is his best contribution to science and philosophy
- Aristotle's logical system is his answer to the structure of language
- While making logic Aristotle made up some of his own terminology
Syllogisms are structures of sentences each of which can meaningfully be called true or false: assertions. in Aristotle's terminology. According to Aristotle, every such sentence must have the same structure: it must contain a subject and predicate and must either affirm or deny the predicate of the subject. Thus, every assertion is either the affirmation or the denial of a single predicate of a single subject.
Negative Effects
- Aristotle thought that light would not move through an empty universe
- Albert Einstein prove that theory wrong in 1910
- Aristotle also believed that masses moved depending on how big they were
- Galileo Galilei proved that wrong
- Galileo said that No matter the mass objects will accelerate the same rate
Citations
- Shields, Christopher. "Aristotle." Stanford University. Stanford University, 25 Sept. 2008. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.
- "10 Incorrect Ancient Greek And Roman Theories About The Body." Listverse. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2014.
- N.p., n.d. Web.
