Aristotle

-Aristotle, Greek Aristoteles, (born 384 BCE) ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the
greatest intellectual figures of Western history.
- He was the author of a philosophical and scientific system that became the framework and vehicle
for both Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy.
-Aristotle’s logical writings contain two different conceptions of the structure of a proposition and the
nature of its parts. One conception can trace its ancestry to Plato’s dialogue the Sophist.

The continuum
Spacial extension, motion, and time are often thought of as continua—as wholes made up of a series
of smaller parts. Aristotle develops a subtle analysis of the nature of such continuous quantities.

Motion
A paradigm of his theory of motion, which appeals to the key notions of actuality and potentiality, is
local motion, or movement from place to place.