Aristotle Flashcards
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Porphyrian Tree
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AKA “Scale of being.” The third century philosopher Porphery developed a graphic for Aristotle’s categories of being.
A body is a material substance. (There are also non-material substances.)
An organism is a living body.
An animal is a sentient organism
A man is a rational animal.
Substance, body, organism, animal, man.
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Rationality
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Three things:
The ability to conceptualize
The ability to predicate
The ability to logically infer
