From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Aug 21 1999 - 08:24:10 MDT
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>>Me:
>>Aristotle used some very intricate pure logic and concluded with
>>certainty that women MUST have fewer teeth than men. They don't.
>>Aristotle had a wife, he could have counted her teeth at any time but
>>never bothered to because he already knew the truth, or thought he did.
Clint O'Dell <clintodell@hotmail.com> Wrote:
>Where can I find information about this?
I think I got that from one of Bertrand Russell's books, probably
"A History Of Western Philosophy" or "Wisdom Of The West".
I could never get through Aristotle myself, his writing style is terrible,
much more turgid than his teacher Plato, and the more I learned about
him the less willing I was to go through the torture. He did some good
stuff in logic and he was an OK biologist, but his physics was a joke
and his contempt for experiment held back science for many years.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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