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Aristotle's Biology

In Our Time: Science

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Aristotle's Inferential Machine

Aristotle's method is aimed at very much what we modern scientists attempt to do. He begins by cumulating all the information he can in a book called Historia on a Marlium. And underpinning those causal explanations is this inferential machine that he's invented. His inferential system is entirely based upon a syllogistic, a set of logical propositions.

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