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Aristotle's Biology

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Is There a Difference Between Women and Men?

I think it's time to remember how limited he was by lack of technology, if we use that word instruments, microscopes and so on and so forth. For instance he thought that flies generated self-generating with life for instance but did he doubt that when he said it or did he say that with authority? The one thing that we do know is that women are colder than men by nature but this shouldn't affect their intellect because in fact in the parts of animals he says slightly colder animals have thinner blood and they can think better. So you'd almost think that women might be slightly more intelligent. I think what's going on is about complementarity in the politics.

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