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HoP 035 - The Philosopher's Toolkit - Aristotle's Logical Works

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Aristotle's Rule of Consequences

For every pair of contradictories, one and only can be true. Aristotle uses this distinction to look at the question of which sentences are directly opposed by another. He says that one statement is contradictory of another if it is an exact negation of it. I know what you're thinking, what if there are no humans at all? i'll be dealing with that question in the next episode.

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