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Aristotle
Plato's twenty-year disciple who reversed his master's method and proposed as certain what he probably never believed himself.
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Also known as Aristotle
First appearance: discourse on the method
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Mentioned as a traditional philosopher whose teachings are part of the scholastic education Descartes critiques.
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Aristotle appears here as the cautionary counterexample: a mind of real judgment and wisdom who nonetheless lacked the candor to admit uncertainty, and whose authority then smothered his successors into acquiescence.
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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Aristotle appears across 6 companion beats. Open any chapter in the free preview to see the notes beside the text.
- Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
- Letter of the Author to the French Translator of the Principles of Philosophy Serving for a Preface
- Part IV: Of the Earth
- The Universality of Mechanical Principles
- CCII
- CCIV
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