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Allan Dyen-Shapiro

A recent spate of op-eds on AI and the death of thinking convinced me to opine. Lacking the credentials to write something scholarly, I decided to do what I do better: being silly. Here's my latest blog post, a satirical take on the issue:

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literature-blog · LISTEN TO ARISTOTLE, MOTHERFUCKER!“When will I ever use this stuff in real life?” the student asks. The educator responds deftly, deemphasizing the specific practices he is teaching, beginning from a point of common ground: “…for the possession of the virtues, knowledge is of little or no avail, whereas the other conditions, so far from being of little moment, are all-important…” The student snags a cell phone from his pocket and answers a text. “Put that away,” the educator commands. “I’m multitasking.” The student doesn’t even
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“Aristotle’s teleological view of nature may be summarized as “Nature does nothing in vain.” Using this regulative principle, Aristotle realized that the understanding of function and purpose is crucial to the understanding of nature. … One can see in these…principles the germ of relational biology: a natural system is alive not because of its matter, but because of the constitutive organization of its phenomenological entailment. The esse of an organism is this special entailment…”
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
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“With gross simplification, one may say that Plato took his stand on idealistic principles, so that the general implies the particular, while Aristotle based his investigations on the physical world, so that the particular also predicts the general. Plato’s method is essentially deductive, while Aristotle’s is both inductive and deductive. Stated otherwise, for Plato the world takes its shape from ideas, whereas for Aristotle ideas take their shape from the world”
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
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“Aristotle was concerned with γνώσις, i.e. knowledge in its original general sense. He contended that one did not really know a ‘thing’…until one had answered its ‘why?’ with its αίτιον (primary or original ‘cause’). … Aristotle’s original Greek term αίτιον (aition) was translated into the Latin causa, a word which…unfortunately diverged into our contemporary notion of ‘cause’, as ‘that which produces an effect’. …a more appropriate Latin rendering, in hindsight, would probably have been explanatio.”
—Aloisius H. Louie, More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology
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Coach Pāṇini ®

#Aristotle named five interlinked Noble Sciences which together make up #Philosophy.

- #Metaphysics: the study of existence, the nature of the universe and all its contents

- #Logic: the ways we may know something, the set of permissible conclusions we may draw based on our perceptions, and some sensible rules of deduction and inference

- #Ethics: what we know about man and what we may deduce and infer (through Logic) about acceptable interactions between pairs of individuals

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Roman ALAN

Useless quote for 31 Mar:

"… to be happy takes a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy."

~ Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics" (c. 335 BCE-322 BCE), 1098a.1 (trans. H. Rackham, 1934)
Link to source:
perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.

www.perseus.tufts.eduAristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bekker page 1094a
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