Aristotle

[ ar-uh-stot-l ]

noun

1. 384–322 b.c., Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great.

Aristotle

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/ ˈærɪˌstɒtəl /

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1. a prominent crater in the NW quadrant of the moon about 83 kilometres in diameter

aristotle

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/ ˈærɪˌstɒtəl /

noun

1. a bottle
2. old-fashioned.
   the buttocks or anus

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/ ˈærɪˌstɒtəl /

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1. Aristotle384 bc322 bcMGreekPHILOSOPHY: philosopherEDUCATION: teacherWRITING: author 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

Aristotle

/ ăr′ĭ-stŏt′l /

1. 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.

Aristotle

1. 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 .

Word History and Origins

Origin of Aristotle¹

rhyming slang; in sense 2, shortened from bottle and glass arse

Example Sentences

Kearney references artists and intellectuals from Aristotle to Shakespeare to Don DeLillo to Leïla Slimani.

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We found evidence that many coveted human-to-human friendships do not in fact live up to Aristotle’s ideal.

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This is something Aristotle might have recognized, too, if only he’d tried to figure it out for himself.

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My father, when he was teaching me Lao-Tse or Confucius, would also quote Aristotle or Plato or Bertrand Russell or Voltaire.

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If we follow Aristotle in grounding moral truth in the goal-directed nature of human beings, then we fail to account for the necessity of moral truths.

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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.

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Aristotle did make progress beyond earlier philosophers, just as Darwin advanced beyond Linnaeus and Cuvier.

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Taxonomy was another major area in which Aristotle influenced the history of science.

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Aristotle is not typically remembered as the father of naturalists, but Darwin acknowledged a line of intellectual descent.

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The genus-species distinction that we still use is a legacy of Aristotle.

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Thomas goes on to contradict Aristotle, in holding quod nullum ens esset nisi corpus.

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Amplification, declamation, and exaggeration were at all times the faults of the Greeks, excepting Demosthenes and Aristotle.

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Aristotle taught for thirteen years, during which time he composed most of his greater works.

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With Aristotle, ethics formed only one branch of attention; his main inquiries were in reference to physics and metaphysics.

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Though Aristotle wrote in a methodical manner, his writings exhibit great parsimony of language.

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