https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

Connect Cephalus's perspective on living well from the end of his life (329a ff. (Greek)) with Aristotle's view of happiness as being defined over a "complete life" (NE I.7 1098a18-20 (Greek)), and his questions about whether one's happiness can be settled before (or even after) death (NE I.10-11 (Greek))

Connect Cephalus’s discussion of the value of wealth (329e ff. (Greek)) with Aristotle’s comments about the connection between wealth and happiness (eudaimonia) (NE I.4 1095a18-26 (Greek), I.5 1096a5-7 (Greek), I.8 1099a31-1099b9 (Greek), I.9 1099b26-29 (Greek)). (Christiana Olfert)

Bill Joy quoting Aristotle.

see original: https://hypothes.is/a/2LPjSMGkEe6K-4Oi8iIRmg

The famous, and oft-quoted first line of Aristotle's Metaphysics.

Aristotle. Hutchins, Robert M., and Mortimer J. Adler, eds. “Metaphysics (Metaphysica).” In The Works of Aristotle, Volume I, 1st ed., 8:495–626. Great Books of the Western World. Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1952.

Aristotle. The Works of Aristotle, Volume I. Edited by Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler. 1st ed. Vol. 8. 54 vols. Great Books of the Western World. Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1952.

(Annotations in 1984, 27th Printing, though notes made on 1952 first edition)

Aristotle on the unity of a work.

source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Interpretation

Notes from event on 2023-09-07

Used as part of the Carolingian educational program (rhetoric)

As of 2023, it's the oldest codex manuscript in Philadelphia

Formerly part of the (Thomas) Phillipps Collection (MSS Phillips appears on p1); see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Phillipps

There is some green highlighting on portions of the text

contains some marginalia and interlineal notations

Periermenias is the Greek title

Underdotting of some of the letters is used to indicate deletion of the text (used like striking out text today)

There are two sets of Carolingian script in the book, likely by different hands/times.

Shows prick marks in parchment for drawing lines to write evenly.

Has a few diagrams: squares of opposites (philosophy); color was added in XI C or possibly later

folio 45 switch to newer MS copy to continue text

Poem in last few lines with another text following it

parchment is smaller in one section at the end.

Another poem and then a letter to an abbott with a few pages in between (likely misbound) - quire of 12

Book starts with grammar, then Boethius translation of Aristotle, and then a letter. This could be an example of the trivium put together purposely for pedagogy sake, though we're missing all of their intended purpose (it wasn't written down).

https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/11148297

9th-century copy of Boethius's Latin translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione, referred to in the manuscript as Periermenias, with the shorter of two commentaries that Boethius wrote on that work. Replacement leaves added in the 11th century to the beginning (f. 1-4) and end (f. 45-64) of the manuscript, in addition to providing the beginning and end of the Boethius (which is probably lacking 2 gatherings between extant gatherings 6 and 7), include the Periermeniae attributed to Apuleius in the medieval period, a poem by Decimus Magnus Ausonius on the seven days of Creation, a sample letter of a monk to an abbot with interlinear and marginal glosses, and other miscellaneous verses, definitions, and excerpts. Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania, has determined that two groups of leaves are misbound; leaves 5-12 (the original order appears to have been 5, 9, 10, 6, 7, 11, 12, 8) and leaves 53-64 (the original order of the leaves appears to have been 61, 62, 53-60, 63, 64).

If the "whole is greater than the sum of its parts" who benefits from the excess value and how is that economically broken up in a fair manner?

The Incoherence of the Philosophers by al-Ghazali marks a dramatic turn in Islamic philosophy away from Aristotle and Plato which had been followed by previous Arab philosophers like Avicenna and al-Farabi.

Current American climate indicates that Republicans take this quote of Aristotle's to heart, but they're not closely thinking about how they define "education". They're definitely not defining it with respect to John Locke's views in Some Thoughts Concerning Education which encourages political systems that move away from an electorate that is subservient to authority.

see: https://hypothes.is/a/upfxCtSiEe2wrdd3cOo-Lg for John Locke

Щедрость — это средний путь между скупостью (недостатком) и расточительством (избытком).

Уверенность — это средний путь между самоуничижением (недостаток) и высокомерием (избыток).

Мужество — это средний путь между трусостью (недостатком) и безрассудством (избытком).

Perhaps the most far-reaching contribution of Cartesian philosophy to modern thought was its rejection of the scholastic notion of substantial forms and real qualities, of all those “little images fluttering

Aristotle reference? <br /> mnemonics?<br /> What is the context here?

In addition to deduction and induction, narrative, as identified by Aristotle, can be a form of argument.

Aristotle's theory of the golden mean is similar to Buddha's middle path

Indices are certainly an old construct. One of the oldest structured examples in the note taking space is that of John Locke who detailed it in Méthode nouvelle de dresser des recueils (1685), later translated into English as A New Method of Organizing Common Place Books (1706).

Previously commonplace books had been structured with headwords done alphabetically. This meant starting with a preconceived structure and leaving blank or empty space ahead of time without prior knowledge of what would fill it or how long that might take. By turning that system on its head, one could fill a notebook from front to back with a specific index of the headwords at the end. Then one didn't need to do the same amount of pre-planning or gymnastics over time with respect to where to put their notes.

This idea combined with that of Konrad Gessner's design for being able to re-arrange slips of paper (which later became index cards based on an idea by Carl Linnaeus), gives us an awful lot of freedom and flexibility in almost any note taking system.

Building blocks of the note taking system

• atomic ideas
• written on (re-arrangeable) slips, cards, or hypertext spaces
• cross linked with each other
• cross linked with an index
• cross linked with references

are there others? should they be broken up differently?

Godfathers of Notetaking

• Aristotle, Cicero (commonplaces)
• Seneca the Younger (collecting and reusing)
• Raymond Llull (combinatorial rearrangements)
• Konrad Gessner (storage for re-arrangeable slips)
• John Locke (indices)
• Carl Linnaeus (index cards)

I'll have to read Aristotle's De mem. et rem., but this looks like it's heavily influenced by the the method of loci which encodes things based on location which forces order.

Raymond Llull's ideas about combinations precluded order however. What could be done by removing order from the equation? Particularly for the idea of inventio?

Significance of Homer's Iliad and his teacher, Aristotle, in Alexanders formative years.

The use of Arabic numerals became more common in the thirteenth century which also saw the incoming re-introduction of Aristotle in Latin in translation from Arabic (ca. 1130–1230).

what they mean.

When quoting material it should have great phrasing and reasonable stand-alone meaning. Preferably the source or person being quoted should have stature or gravitas with respect to the idea at hand. Quotes should recall the classical idea of sententiae as imagined by Aristotle and Quintilian and seen throughout the commonplace book tradition.

What evidence was given for this identification of Homer and Aristotle?

Not sure how they manage not to link Rembrandt's 1653 painting "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer" here.

<br>By <span title="Dutch painter and etcher (1606-1669)">Rembrandt</span> - Unknown source, Public Domain, Link

It might also be more interesting to use the metaphor of a ladder here than a chain to give a tangential nod to Western culture's scala naturae.

Aristotle came up with some solid counter examples against using the principle of sufficient reason and showed how they could be falsified.

What is the flaw in logic that would cause it to fail? Are there situations in which it could be used reliably? Ones in which it can't?

The practice of scholarship is the practice of engaging in written dialogue with those who came before. Aristotle’s regular engagement with the things said by his predecessors is an important part of his legomenology.

Image Credit: Detail from "The School of Athens" by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (c. 1509–1511).

Euclid's common notions appear to be grounds for many of Marx's arguments in Ch. 1, but also throughout the book.

Near the beginning of Ch. 1 of the Elements Euclid lists them [PDF]:

• Things that are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another (the Transitive property of a Euclidean relation).
• If equals are added to equals, then the wholes are equal (Addition property of equality).
• If equals are subtracted from equals, then the differences are equal (Subtraction property of equality).
• Things that coincide with one another are equal to one another (Reflexive property).
• The whole is greater than the part.

Regarding the fifth, also see Aristotle, Metaphysics 8.6 [=1045a]; Topics 6.13 (=150a15-16);

On the concept of the "whole-before-the-parts" (along with the "whole of the parts" and the "whole in the part"), also see Proclus, El. Theol., prop. 67.

Credibility or "ethos," per Aristotle.

More info

The classic example:

All whales are animals that breathe by means of lungs.<br> All whales are mammals.<br> All whales are animals that breath by means of lungs.<br>

In the Prior Analytics, Aristotle presents the first system of logic, the theory of the syllogism (see the entry on Aristotle's logic and ch. 1 of Lagerlund 2000 for further details). A syllogism is a deduction consisting of three sentences: two premises and a conclusion. Syllogistic sentences are categorical sentences involving a subject and a predicate connected by a copula (verb). These are in turn divided into four different classes: universal affirmative (A), particular affirmative (I), universal negative (E) and particular negative (O), written by Aristotle as follows:

A – A belongs to all B (AaB) I – A belongs to some B (AiB) E – A does not belong to any B (AeB) O – A does not belong to some B (AoB)

This reminds me of Aristotle's rational animal and Nicomachean ethics.

Vico seems to be opposed, then, to highly specialized education and in favor of breadth of knowledge. This has echoes of Aristotle and Cicero.

I knew Aristotle was hanging around here somewhere.

The Golden Mean)

this is an important point to just slip in like this. The Law of Excluded Middle is one of the three fundamental laws of Aristotelian logic, that is, Western thought.

this is referring to the dialogues of philosopher Plato, who was a student of Socrates, Plato was in turn the teacher of Aristotle

To add to Dr. Rivers's note on Aristotle, the philosopher famously defined rhetoric as the "ability to see the available means of persuasion" (I'm not quoting this exactly from a source in front of me, but it's pretty close to something like this)

Being is always one. Multiplicity is always to be reduced to unity.

Heidegger > Aristotle: "Aristotle says: ἡ ψυχὴ τὰ ὄντα πώς ἐστιν.vi “Man’s soul is, in a certain way, entities.”" ||

Heidegger > Aristotle: "every λόγος is both σύνθεσις and διαίρεσις" ||

Heidegger > Aristotle: "interpretation of Aristotle's essay on time," (incomplete) ||

This is the origin of the fundamentals of all rhetoric.

It is fascinating that he had an interest in biology despite being the master rhetorician.

Rhetoric as bad.

Rhetoric as slick

Aristotle's three types of rhetoric

What does she mean by this?

This is the shortest gloss of Aristotle I have ever seen, especially by one claiming him to be "the best."

Juma, Calestous. 2016. Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies. Oxford University Press.

Headrick, Daniel R. 2000. When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850. Oxford University Press.

Notes (American spelling).

p. v. Has an interesting idea that the real contribution of the long eighteenth century to information was the ordering and typology systems.

For ever since aristotle. About how easy it is now to remember.

interesting definition

agreed. I love some of Aristotle's other works, but did not so much appreciate his lengthy assertions on rhetoric.

Rhetoric (and Dialectic) as both an art and commonplace function of all.

This comment would make Aristotle roll over in his grave! For Aristotle, the firmest axiom of metaphysics (of everything, really) in the Principle of Non-Contradiction (PNC).