For one thing, Aristotle mentions that plays may corrupt the audience.

In Łukasiewicz 1951 book, Aristotle ’ s Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic, he mentions that the principle of his notation was to write the functors before the arguments to avoid brackets and that he had employed his notation in his logical papers since 1929.

Aristotle must be following Ctesias when he mentions two one-horned animals, the oryx ( a kind of antelope ) and the so-called " Indian ass ".

* Pugsley had an octopus called Aristotle, and Wednesday a large collection of spiders, with only one she mentions in particular by name, called Homer.

Aristotle, in Poetics 1447a, mentions lyric poetry ( kitharistike played to the cithara, a type of lyre ) along with drama, epic poetry, dancing, painting and other forms of mimesis.

Aristotle ( 384 BC-322 BC ) mentions silk weaving conducted by the women of the island.

Aristotle also mentions that Aristogeiton was tortured in order to give the names of the conspirators in the plot.

Aristotle mentions their practice of solemnly reciting their laws in a kind of sing-song to prevent their being forgotten, a practice in existence in his days, also found at Gallic Druids.

* 4th century BC – Aristotle mentions over 170 sorts of birds in his work on animals.

It is in this treatise that Aristotle mentions the Predicables, later discussed by Porphyry and the scholastic logicians.

Aristotle for one, mentions this as the consensus concerning democracy, that it champions equality as a form of liberty.

Aristotle mentions this notion but pays little attention to it.

Aristotle also mentions two other possibilities that he argues can be put aside:

Aristotle also mentions some " mean conditions " involving feelings: a sense of shame is sometimes praised, or said to be in excess or deficiency.

" The Suda mentions his epitome of the Physics of Aristotle, in eight books ; of the Prior Analytics, in two books ; of the Posterior Analytics, in two books ; of the treatise On the Soul, in seven books ; and of the Categories in one book.

After the coach mentions the football positions called " ends ", Morgenstern asks where the beginnings for those ends are, because ends must have beginnings, according to Aristotle.

Aristotle mentions a Thrasymachus again in his De Sophisticis Elenchis, where he credits him with a pivotal role in the development of rhetorical theory.

Aristotle also mentions the koina, fallacious enthymemes, and lysis ( the refutation of an opponent ’ s enthymeme ).

Aristotle mentions ( Politics, p. 1310 a ) a secret oath taken by the members of oligarchic clubs, containing the promise, " I will be an enemy to the people, and will devise all the harm I can against them.

In La Logique et son histoire d ' Aristote à Russell, published with Armand Colin in 1970, Robert Blanché, the author of Structures intellectuelles ( Vrin, 1966 ) mentions that Józef Maria Bocheński speaks of a sort of Indian logical triangle to be compared with the square of Aristotle ( or square of Apuleius ), in other words with the square of opposition.

Plato, for example, mentions users of a sign language, but he and Aristotle were in near-perfect agreement: without the ability to speak, Deaf people could be little more than barbarians.

The name Graea ( γραία ) is derived from Proto Greek grau-j ," old lady ". Homer, while reciting the Boeotian forces in the Iliads Catalogue of Ships, provides the first known reference to a region named Graea, and Pausanias mentions that the ancient city of Tanagra was for a time called Graea, adding that " no one knows where this Graia really was ; Aristotle thought it was near Oropus, further east on the same coast as Delion.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

Ayn Rand accredited Aristotle as " the greatest philosopher in history " and cited him as a major influence on her thinking.

The study of Aristotle brought him to study and comment on the teachings of Muslim academics, notably Avicenna and Averroes, and this would bring him in the heart of academic debate.

His industry in every department was great, and though we find in his system many gaps which are characteristic of scholastic philosophy, his protracted study of Aristotle gave him a great power of systematic thought and exposition.

On the subject of alchemy and chemistry, many treatises relating to Alchemy have been attributed to him, though in his authentic writings he had little to say on the subject, and then mostly through commentary on Aristotle.

He apprehended well the views of each of the two philosophers and Aristotle and brought them under one and the same nous and transmitted philosophy without conflicts to all of his disciples, and especially to the best of those acquainted with him, Plotinus, Origen, and their successors.

Aristotle tells a story of Aesop in conflict with a ferryman and relating to him a myth about Charybdis.

His reverence for Aristotle conflicted with his loathing of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed to him barren, disputatious, and wrong in its objectives.

Significantly, he values him only for his superstitious and astrological writings ; his scientific writings are dismissed because they contradict Aristotle, but excused on the ground that the author of the astrological works deserves to be listened to even when he is wrong.

Kant claimed it was Hume ’ s skepticism about the nature of inductive reasoning and the conclusions of rationalist metaphysicians ( Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz ) that " roused him from his dogmatic ( i. e. rationalist ) slumbers " and spurred him on to one of the most far reaching re-evaluations of human reason since Aristotle.

In 1507 he was sent to the Latin school at Pforzheim, where the rector, Georg Simler of Wimpfen, introduced him to the Latin and Greek poets and Aristotle.

Averroes later reported how it was also Ibn Tufail that inspired him to write his famous commentaries on Aristotle:

Famous scholastics such as Aquinas believed him to be so important they did not refer to him by name, simply calling him " The Commentator " and calling Aristotle " The Philosopher.

Thespis () of Icaria ( present-day Dionysos, Greece ) ( 6th century BC ), according to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, was the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play ( instead of speaking as him or herself ).

Although his writings are all commentaries on Aristotle and other authors, rather than original compositions, his intelligent and prodigious learning makes him the last great philosopher of pagan antiquity.

Aristotle in his lost work The State of the Ithacians cited a myth according to which Cephalus was instructed by an oracle to mate with the first female being he should encounter if he wanted to have offspring ; Cephalus mated with a she-bear, who then transformed into a human woman and bore him a son, Arcesius.

Unlike many commentators on Euclid before and after him ( including of course Saccheri ), Khayyám was not trying to prove the parallel postulate as such but to derive it from an equivalent postulate he formulated from " the principles of the Philosopher " ( Aristotle ):

As Aristotle explored theories on the pursuit of happiness, he discussed the virtues of people surrounding him and, perhaps unintentionally, was the first person to study characters.

Aristotle bequeathed to Theophrastus his writings, and designated him as his successor at the Lyceum.

His given name was Tyrtamus (), but he later became known by the nickname " Theophrastus ," given to him, it is said, by Aristotle to indicate the grace of his conversation ( ancient Greek: Θεός

Aristotle in his will made him guardian of his children, including Nicomachus with whom he was close.