"The Categories" is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a...
On Longevity And Shortness Of Life
The reasons for some animals being long-lived and others short-lived, and, in a word, causes of the length and brevity of life.
Politics: A Treatise On Government
The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part. It looks back to the Ethics as the Ethics looks forward to the Politics. For...
Meteorology
We have already discussed the first causes of nature, and all natural motion, also the stars ordered in the motion of the heavens, and the physical element-enumerating and...
On Dreams
"On Dreams" is one of the short treatises that make up Aristotle's Parva Naturalia.Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist.Translated by...
On Memory And Reminiscence
We have, in the next place, to treat of Memory and Remembering, considering its nature, its cause, and the part of the soul to which this experience, as well as that of...
On Sleep And Sleeplessness
With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or common to both; and if common, to what part of soul or body they...
On Prophesying By Dreams
As to the divination which takes place in sleep, and is said to be based on dreams, we cannot lightly either dismiss it with contempt or give it implicit confidence. The fact that...
On Sense And The Sensible
Having now definitely considered the soul, by itself, and its several faculties, we must next make a survey of animals and all living things, in order to ascertain what functions...
On Sophistical Refutations
Let us now discuss sophistic refutations, i.e. what appear to be refutations but are really fallacies instead. Some reasonings are genuine, while others seem to be so but are not,...
