Aristotle returned to Athens after many years of teaching Alexander in 335 BC and established his own school, the Lyceum. ... He spent his life writing about everything that he thought about or observed: poetry, ethics, politics, physics, mathematics, anatomy, physiology, and logic, just to name a few of his areas of interest and thought. ... This method of study is called inductive reasoning: observing as many examples as possible and then, based on these observations, working out a basic principle they have in common. Inductive reasoning is the basis of the western scientific method. ...

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