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Aristotle's different statements and some mistakes

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  Although Aristotle was the world's famous theorist and philosopher, he still made some statement mistakes around several area. These wrong statements are overturned in the next thousands of years.   Aristotle said, " force is the cause of the movement of the object". He thought that the object should be moved only by the force of the outside force, the external force ceased, and the motion ceased. It was not questioned for nearly two thousand years from the fourth century B.C. to the 16th century. Now we know that his statement is wrong and the main "culprit" in the practice of Aristotle's misconception is the friction.  The concept of friction was not proposed by Galileo until the 16th century AD.   Aristotle thought that heavier objects would fall faster than light objects, and this statement was later overturned by Galileo as well.   Aristotle thought that position and time are the premises of motion. The existence of a position is proved by the fa...
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Main contributions and syllogism of Aristotle

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  Aristotle has spent most of his life in academic research. What we have as Aristotle's works are about 30 closely written, terse, treatises on a full range of philosophical and scientific topics. These may have been his morning lectures or even student's notes on those lectures.   Aristotle thinks science can be divided into three categories: theoretical, productive and practical. Theoretical science is the search for truth, including mathematics, physics and metaphysics, where mathematics is the most precise science. Productive science is the process. And practical science, such as ethics and political science. is for the sake of putting people in action.  In modern language, theoretical science is basic science, productive science is production technology and practical science is ethical norm.   In contrast to Plato's existing works, they consist of 20 dramatic dialogues that discuss philosophical issues in a Socratic, dialectical, questioning manner. Aristot...
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mathematics theory of Aristotle

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  Aristotle is one of the famous philosophists of ancient Greek. He had stated several mathematics theorems that influence the whole math world. Ancient Greek adapted the culture of Egypt and Babylonian. Till 4th century BC, the scientific research was classified in several different subjects. Aristotle involved in subjects like philosophy, politics, ethics, logic, mathematics, physics, astronomy and biology. He was the first taxonomist in the world.   There are three important definitions of mathematics given by Aristotle. 1. Mathematics is a theoretical science 2. A hypothesis asserts one part of a contradiction, like something is or is not. 3. A definition does not assert either part of a contradiction.   Also, Aristotle found out several propositions he favored from Euclid's elements as listed below. 1." In a given circle equal chords from angles with the circumference of the circle". ( Prior Analytics  i.24; not at all Euclidean in conception) 2. " The an...
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Life of Aristotle

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    Aristotle(384 DC - 332DC), the worlds famous philosopher, scientist and mathematician. Aristotle was taught by Plato and he was the instructor of the Great Alexander. Although some of his mathematics theorems are overturned, he still left us a series of definitions which exactly define what mathematics is. Nicomachus     Aristotle lost his parents at very young age. He spent years within the Macedonian palace where he got touch  with the Macedonian monarchy. Plato Aristotle  by  Francesco Hayez  (1791–1882)     In 384 BC, Aristotle was born in the stakira of Thrace. The city was a colony of Greece, adjacent to the rising Macedonia. His father was the court physician of Philip ii, king of Macedon, and from his family, he belonged to the middle class of the slave-owner class. At the age of 17, he went to Athens to study in Plato's academy for 20 years, until Plato died. Perhaps influenced by ...
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