Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Aristotle wrote many dialogues, only fragments of which survived.

Averroes, Avicenna and Alpharabius, who wrote on Aristotle in great depth, also influenced Thomas Aquinas and other Western Christian scholastic philosophers.

He wrote many commentaries on the works of Aristotle, extant are those on the Prior Analytics, Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics.

Andronicus wrote a work upon Aristotle, the fifth book of which contained a complete list of the philosopher's writings, and he also wrote commentaries upon the Physics, Ethics, and Categories.

Aristotle wrote about the remarkable waters.

He was a contemporary of Aristotle, against whom he wrote with great bitterness.

The frequentist view was arguably foreshadowed by Aristotle, in Rhetoric, when he wrote:

Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ), Plato ’ s greatest pupil, wrote a treatise on methods of reasoning used in deductive proofs ( see Logic ) which was not substantially improved upon until the 19th century.

Loïc Wacquant wrote that habitus is an old philosophical notion, originating in the thought of Aristotle, whose notion of hexis (" state ") was translated into habitus by the Medieval Scholastics.

Aristotle refers to a version of The Histories written by ' Herodotus of Thurium ' and indeed some passages in the Histories have been interpreted as proof that he wrote about southern Italy from personal experience there ( IV, 15, 99 ; VI 127 ).

Reflecting his immense influence on 20th-century thought, Hilda Neatby, in 1953, wrote " Dewey has been to our age what Aristotle was to the later middle ages, not a philosopher, but the philosopher.

The Greek historian Aristotle Kaillis wrote that it was Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler together with his insistence that the Western powers would in the end not go to war for Poland that was the most important reason why Hitler did not cancel Fall Weiß all together instead of postponing " X-day " for six days.

Aristotle wrote that ambiguity can arise from the use of ambiguous names, but cannot exist in the facts themselves:

In 350 BC, Aristotle wrote Meteorology.

In the 13th century medieval Europe the English bishop Robert Grosseteste wrote on a wide range of scientific topics discussing light from four different perspectives: an epistemology of light, a metaphysics or cosmogony of light, an etiology or physics of light, and a theology of light, basing it on the works Aristotle and Platonism.

Grosseteste's most famous disciple, Roger Bacon, wrote works citing a wide range of recently translated optical and philosophical works, including those of Alhazen, Aristotle, Avicenna, Averroes, Euclid, al-Kindi, Ptolemy, Tideus, and Constantine the African.

Aristotle wrote in the Poetics that " the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

In his Meteorology, Aristotle wrote:

Aristotle wrote critically of terror employed by tyrants against their subjects.

Aristotle dealt with the unity of action in some detail, under the general subject of " definition of tragedy ", where he wrote:

Forms of hedonism were put forward by Aristippus and Epicurus ; Aristotle argued that eudaimonia is the highest human good and Augustine wrote that " all men agree in desiring the last end, which is happiness.

In the 4th Century BC, Aristotle wrote his Poetics, the first play-writing manual.

He wrote commentaries on most of the surviving works of Aristotle.

By the time they reach that age, however, Aristotle no longer worries about the evil influence of comedies.

Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.

The logical works of Aristotle were compiled into six books in about the early 1st century AD:

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

Plato spoke about the " knowledge of knowledge " ( Greek νόησις νοήσεως-nóesis noéseos ) and Aristotle explains the idea in full length:

In particular they pointed out a number of doubts about the physical reasons of the radial gravity, and hesitated in accepting the physical reasons proposed by Aristotle or Stoicism.

The ancients had a variety of ideas about heredity: Theophrastus proposed that male flowers caused female flowers to ripen ; Hippocrates speculated that " seeds " were produced by various body parts and transmitted to offspring at the time of conception ; and Aristotle thought that male and female semen mixed at conception.

Information about Hippocrates can also be found in the writings of Aristotle, which date from the 4th century BC, in the Suda of the 10th century AD, and in the works of John Tzetzes, which date from the 12th century AD.

He noted its fading luminosity, speculated about its origin, and used the lack of observed parallax to argue that it was in the sphere of fixed stars, further undermining the doctrine of the immutability of the heavens ( the idea accepted since Aristotle that the celestial spheres were perfect and unchanging ).

But it must also be remembered that Aristotle is describing a view of morality, not a system of law, and therefore his remarks as to nature here are about the grounding of the morality enacted as law not the laws themselves.

Aristotle spoke about a ' first philosophy ' which was the most general science and a ' second philosophy ' which dealt with nature ( or ' physis ').

Aristotle attributed the first of what could be called a scientific discussion on magnetism to Thales of Miletus, who lived from about 625 BC to about 545 BC.

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.

Accordingly, Aristotle was more confident than Plato about coming to know the sensible world ; he was a prototypical empiricist and a founder of induction.

Aristotle was a new, moderate sort of realist about universals.

Though not recognized by Aristotle, there is biological evidence, written about by Galen, that the human brain is an essential seat of human experience in the mode of presentational immediacy.

Already in 400 BCE, Aristotle referred to a similar Greek concept in talking about household economics.

Vesalius, undeterred, went on to stir up more controversy, this time disproving not just Galen but also Mondino de Liuzzi and even Aristotle ; all three had made assumptions about the functions and structure of the heart that were clearly wrong.

Aristotle was one of the first to publicly hypothesize about the nature of light, proposing that light is a disturbance in the element air ( that is, it is a wave-like phenomenon ).

The idea of asking about being may be traced back via Aristotle to Parmenides.

The Italian Renaissance brought about a stricter interpretation of Aristotle, as this long-lost work came to light in the late 15th century.