The view has sometimes been entertained that after all Aristotle in his physical treatises was a mere copyist, that these works are rather of the nature of literary compilation from sources now ...

(1) THE treatise “On Coming-to-Be and Passing-Away” is one of very great interest to the pure Aristotelian. The question discussed in it is this: the four most elementary substances known to ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Aristotle thinks that happiness is an activity – it consists in doing something – rather than a feeling. It is the best activity of which ...

The Infinite Monkey Theorem imagines a whimsical world where if enough monkeys typed at keyboards long enough, they'd ...

Around for over a century, the theory has been commonly attributed to both French mathematician Emile Borel or British anthropologist Thomas Huxley or even back to the days of Aristotle in ancient ...

Trump’s speeches may seem rambling and incoherent, his ‘weave’ is actually part of a carefully constructed narrative.

Two mathematicians worked out that even if all the world's chimps were given the entire lifespan of the universe, they wouldn ...

This set the stage for the wartime work of Enrico Fermi ... Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that objects fall at different rates because the force acting upon them was stronger for heavier ...

Here’s how it works. The speed of light traveling through ... As early as the 5th century BC, Greek philosophers like Empedocles and Aristotle disagreed on the nature of light speed.

The work was good but difficult ... my wife and I reject that definition. Instead, we embrace Aristotle’s concept of “eudaimonic happiness”: the daily pursuit of meaning, mutually supportive ...