Aristotle; a Greek philosopher of logic, physics, and more various contributions to today’s way of life, has previously laid the foundations of these things for many modern day philosophers. More importantly, Aristotle’s speculation for reasoning was one of the most well thought out attributions that philosophers today are still advancing on. Prior to Aristotle’s philosophies, he resided with his father Nichomachus on the Chalcidic peninsula of Macedonia where he was born. Following the death of his father, Aristotle moved to Athens and attended Plato’s academy where he was educated until Plato’s death in 348 BCE. Aristotle was later called by Philip II to Macedonia to be a teacher and mentor to his teenage son, who we know today as Alexander …show more content…
He disputed that science must be based on self-evident truths, or axioms, in which one can draw their own hypothesis
Aristotle argued that we uncover scientific knowledge through his logical theory or what is known today as “Syllogism”. This theory basically presents recognition of a middle term to a minor term for the topic of a major. Known around the world, the most prominent quote by
Aristotle concludes that, “All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal”. Science has proven that men are in fact not immortal and he is simply using someone well known as an example to state that he is a man and he is mortal. Also, Aristotle includes that in order for his theory to produce scientific knowledge, the principles must be “true, primary, immediate, better known than, and prior to the conclusion”. This would in fact yield scientific knowledge because it did not meet the criteria to consider it logical. This entire argument would restrict knowledge to only which could be observed or experienced. Aristotle presumed that all knowledge must be obtained from what is already known in the world.
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He came up with what is known today as “syllogism”. Syllogism is defined is essentially is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true. This theory presents us with a middle term, minor term, and a major. The middle term is recognized by the minor term for the topic of a major term.
Aristotle wrote, “On Interpretation” in 350 B.C.E to help explain an understanding of what truth and falsity mean. This would present propositions which are sentences that contain either a true or false statement, for example “Every human is mortal”. This proposition is true according to scientific knowledge presented by Aristotle’s syllogism. These propositions combine or separate concepts interpreted by the statement. With this he showed us how to determine whether the statement has truth or falsity. This only played with past and