Aristotle
[ar-uh-stot-l]
- 384–322 b.c., Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great.
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Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere school-boys to old Aristotle.
Aristotle did make progress beyond earlier philosophers, just as Darwin advanced beyond Linnaeus and Cuvier.
Taxonomy was another major area in which Aristotle influenced the history of science.
Aristotle is not typically remembered as the father of naturalists, but Darwin acknowledged a line of intellectual descent.
The genus-species distinction that we still use is a legacy of Aristotle.
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We are told that the effort of the Greek, of Aristotle, was to "submit to the empire of fact."
Albert DurerT. Sturge Moore
From them dates the sway of Aristotle throughout the middle ages.
Initiation into PhilosophyEmile Faguet
To Aristotle, as to Plato, but more precisely, man is composed of soul and body.
Initiation into PhilosophyEmile Faguet
Again what city ever received Plato's or Aristotle's laws, or Socrates' precepts?
The Praise of FollyDesiderius Erasmus
It is older than Aristotle, who discusses it in his treatise on Politics.
The American MindBliss Perry
aristotle
- a bottle
- old-fashioned the buttocks or anus
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Word Origin
rhyming slang; in sense 2, shortened from bottle and glass arse
Aristotle1
- 384–322 bc, Greek philosopher; pupil of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great, and founder of the Peripatetic school at Athens; author of works on logic, ethics, politics, poetics, rhetoric, biology, zoology, and metaphysics. His works influenced Muslim philosophy and science and medieval scholastic philosophy
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Aristotle2
- a prominent crater in the NW quadrant of the moon about 83 kilometres in diameter
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Aristotle
(ăr′ĭ-stŏt′l)384-322 bc- Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western intellectual and scientific thought. In his works on science he emphasized the direct observation of nature and the philosophy that theory follows empirical observation.
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Aristotle
[ăr′ĭ-stŏt′l]
- Greek philosopher and scientist who wrote about virtually every area of knowledge, including most of the sciences. Throughout his life he made careful observations, collected specimens, and summarized all the existing knowledge of the natural world. He pioneered the study of zoology, developing a classification system for all animals and making extensive taxonomic studies. His systematic approach later evolved into the basic scientific method in the Western world.
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Aristotle
[(ar-uh-stot-l)]
One of the greatest ancient Greek philosophers, with a large influence on subsequent Western thought. Aristotle was a student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great. He disagreed with Plato over the existence of ideal Forms and believed that form and matter are always joined. Aristotle's many books include Rhetoric, the Poetics, the Metaphysics, and the Politics.
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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