Image Courtesy of David Joyce at Clarke University There are several ways that one might produce a line equal to a given line. A carpenter might use a tape measure or a story-stick. A story-stick is an unmarked object of equivalent length to another. Its advantage lies in that it eliminates measurement. There are no … Continue reading Mechanical Art vs. Science: Euclid, Book I, Proposition 2
Nous in De Anima as a Pattern for Induction in the Posterior Analytics Continue reading A Paper on Aristotle’s De Anima (On the Soul) and the Posterior Analytics
Just as fish cannot pull oxygen directly from the air, but would asphyxiate if left to do so, so too man cannot apprehend the intelligible forms of things directly. We begin in sensation, move to memory and experience, and ultimately to apprehend the forms. from Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics: So out of sense-perception comes to be what … Continue reading Gills:Lungs::Human Knowledge:Angelic
