A small sample of certain words, indispensable for the articulate communication of thoughts and experiences, introduced by Aristotle: |
analytika (Greek: to unravel) used for logic; subject and predicate in grammar and logic; form and matter as expressing the two correlative aspects of something that is possibly essential to it; energy as the active power inherent in a thing; potential for what is latent (dormant) but can be released;
substance (most important part of anything) genus and species (general, special); quantity and quality |
We should always remember that the Western pursuit of science would have been unthinkable without the definitions and vocabulary introduced by Aristotle. |