
HoP 037 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Bar Is Set Higher Than Descartes Would Set It, Okay?
Aristotle distinguishes between two different starting points. He talks about some as being more knowable in nature than others. Induction, for example, its beginnings look more like sensations or perception. The apparatic method is a way of getting at those deo demonstrative first principles. And then there is another method, which may include both induction and dialectic.
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