RB-4

Challenging book. I read the free translation on The Internet Classics Archive by Daniel C. Stevenson, Web Atomics. Covers the basics of how the western world thought about the world for a thousand years. I got the idea for reading this from Fuck Theory's Syallbus. I'm going to read Porphyry's Isagoge (Introduction to the Categories of Aristotle) next, from here: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/porphyry_isagogue_02_translation.htm ( )

To most, Aristotle's logical works will seem superfluous at best, or needlessly complex at worst. The reality is that they're neither. His style is unusual to us, but the subject matter is extremely simple but crucial the development of rational thought. ( )

I was listening to this book on librovox. Although it was narrated by a robot, I liked it a lot. It is very short book only one and a half hour. I was reading it not for the sake of research but for the sake of broadening my understanding and familiarity with this kind of literature. I liked the way logic presented in this work. Very crisp and clear deduction of reasoning based on the common sense. This book is an exercise for a curious mind. ( )

Aristotle here defines a lot of the basic concepts and terms. It's simple, straightforward and at the same time an apparent leap beyond what must have existed previously. The concepts include: predicate, simple, composite (parts of speech), relative terms, that a number has no contrary but a comparative term does, contraries, simultaneous, prior, movement (types - generation, destruction, increase, diminution, alteration, change of place), and rest as contrary of motion. ( )