Proxenus taught Aristotle Greek, rhetoric, and poetry. ... It is a theory of inferences with two premises; premises do not share each of which is a categorical sentence, having exactly one term in common, and having as conclusion a categorical sentence the terms of which are just those two terms. ... In each statement, Aristotle insists that something can be better understood when its causes can be stated in specific terms rather than in general terms. ...

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He did not think about the world in abstract terms like Plato. ... 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. ... He saw objects and organisms in terms of what the currently were and of what they could become. ...

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On average, we spend about one third of our lives sleeping. During a portion of that time, we are also dreaming. While asleep, we can gain rest and refreshment for our hard day of work. Essentially, dreams are our method of relaxing and letting our minds drift away into a distant world. While dr...

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