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Aristotle's Focus on Change
- Aristotle, Plato's student, believed Plato's work lacked an account for change.
- Aristotle, influenced by his physician father, focused on growth and development, using biological analogies.
Eidos and Understanding
- Aristotle adopted Plato's concept of the eidos, the structural-functional organization of something.
- He emphasized the eidos as what makes a bird a bird and how we know it's a bird.
Actuality and Potentiality
- Aristotle introduced the concepts of actuality and potentiality.
- Form actualizes potential, giving something a structure to act in a certain way, like wood becoming a chair.