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Vital heat. Vital heat, also called innate or natural heat, or calidum innatum, is a term in Ancient Greek medicine and philosophy that has generally referred to the heat produced within the body, usually the heat produced by the heart and the circulatory system. Vital heat was a somewhat controversial subject because it was formerly believed ...
Categories. (Aristotle) The Categories ( Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai; Latin Categoriae or Praedicamenta) 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 proposition. They are "perhaps the single most heavily discussed of all Aristotelian notions". [1]
Login. In computer security, logging in (or logging on, signing in, or signing on) is the process by which an individual gains access to a computer system or program by identifying and authenticating themselves. The user credentials are typically some form of a username and a password, [1] and these credentials themselves are sometimes referred ...
Jaime Aristotle Alip (born April 22, 1957) is a Filipino social entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of the CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of the CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions.
Unmoved mover. The unmoved mover ( Ancient Greek: ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ, romanized : ho ou kinoúmenon kineî, lit. 'that which moves without being moved') [1] or prime mover ( Latin: primum movens) is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause (or first uncaused cause) [2] or "mover" of all the motion in the ...
From this, Aristotle defines natural slavery in two phases. The first is the natural slave's existence and characteristics. The second is the natural slave in society and in interaction with their master. According to Aristotle, natural slaves' main features and include being pieces of property, tools for actions, and belonging to others.
Aristotle says rhetoric is the counterpart (antistrophe) of dialectic.: I.1.1–2 He explains the similarities between the two but fails to comment on the differences. Here he introduces the term enthymeme.: I.1.3 Chapter Two Aristotle defines rhetoric as the ability in a particular case to see the available means of persuasion.
Andronikos of Rhodes ( Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος ὁ Ῥόδιος, romanized : Andrónikos ho Rhódios; Latin: Andronicus Rhodius; fl. c. 60 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Rhodes who was also the scholarch (head) of the Peripatetic school. He is most famous for publishing a new edition of the works of Aristotle that forms the ...