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    Aristotle's biology is the theory of biology, grounded in systematic observation and collection of data, mainly zoological, embodied in Aristotle's books...
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    and Aristotle. Prometheus Books. Reeve, C. D. C. (2000). Substantial Knowledge: Aristotle's Metaphysics. Hackett. Rose, Lynn E. (1968). Aristotle's Syllogistic...
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    2017). "Aristotle's Biology". Plato. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019. Section 2: Aristotle's Philosophy...
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    research". While the concept of form in biology, opposed to function, dates back to Aristotle (see Aristotle's biology), the field of morphology was developed...
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  • Aristotle's views on women influenced later Western thinkers, who quoted him as an authority until the end of the Middle Ages. Aristotle gave equal weight...
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    Plant (redirect from Plant (biology))
    multicellular, except for some green algae. Historically, as in Aristotle's biology, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals...
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    theory of evolution in 1859, but had been observed before this from Aristotle's biology onwards, and it was explicitly analysed by Pierre Belon in 1555....
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  • On Generation and Corruption (category Works by Aristotle)
    and Passing Away is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific, part of Aristotle's biology, and philosophic. The philosophy...
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  • Aristotelian physics (category Philosophy of Aristotle)
    similar to Aristotle's elements; the term "air", for instance, does not refer to breathable air. Lang, H.S. (2007). The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics:...
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  • In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement' and -νομία (-nomia) 'method') is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing)...
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    October 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2008. Lennox, J.G. 2001. Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science. Cambridge: Cambridge...
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  • Generation of Animals (category Works by Aristotle)
    trans. A. Platt, 766b33-37 Aristotle, Generation of Animals, trans. A. Platt, 778a18-19 Balme, D. M. (1987). "Aristotle's Biology was not Essentialist" in...
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    translation of Aristotle's αἰτία that is nearest to current ordinary language is "explanation." In Physics II.3 and Metaphysics V.2, Aristotle holds that...
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    Teleology (section Biology)
    physique". Gotthelf, Allan. 1987. "Aristotle's Conception of Final Causality". In Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology, edited by A. Gotthelf and J....
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    History of Animals (category History of biology)
    Leroi's 2014 book The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science and BBC documentary Aristotle's Lagoon set Aristotle's biological writings including the...
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  • constitute, in the case of a linear mechanism, its "start conditions"). Aristotle's biology Craver, Carl; Tabery, James (2017). "Mechanisms in Science". The...
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    – Diseases Ic. Walter de Gruyter. p. 6. ISBN 978-3-11-007903-6. "Aristotle's Biology – 5.2. From Inquiry to Understanding; from hoti to dioti". Stanford...
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    (April 2009), pp. 235–257 (23 pages) Aristotle, History of Animals Lennox, James (27 July 2011). "Aristotle's Biology". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy...
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    Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single,...
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  • Parva Naturalia (category Works by Aristotle)
    of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul. They form parts of Aristotle's biology. The individual works...
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  • work on Aristotle's biology and philosophy of biology. In particular, Lennox's work in the 1980s catalyzed a renewed interest in Aristotle's biology by arguing...
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    Great chain of being (category Obsolete biology theories)
    The basic idea of a ranking of the world's organisms goes back to Aristotle's biology. In his History of Animals, where he ranked animals over plants based...
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  • Telos (category Philosophy of Aristotle)
    Teleology is central in Aristotle's work on plant and animal biology, and human ethics, through his theory of the four causes. Aristotle's notion that everything...
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    on the scientific works of Aristotle. Aristotle's physical writings began to be discussed openly. At a time when Aristotle's method was permeating all...
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  • The Autonomy of Biology. Sachs, Joe (1995), Aristotle's Physics: a Guided Study, Rutgers University Press Sachs, Joe (1999), Aristotle's Metaphysics, a...
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  • the More and the Less in Aristotle's Biology", in Gotthelf, A.; Lennox, J.G. (eds.), Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology, Cambridge, MA: Cambridge...
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    φὐσις in Aristotle's Physics Β, 1". In McNeill, William (ed.). Pathmarks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 183–230, 185. Aristotle's Physics...
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    ancient Greek philosophy of Aristotle, where the final cause (the purpose) of a thing is its function. However, Aristotle's biology does not envisage evolution...
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  • book}}: |work= ignored (help) Tipton, Jason A. (2014). Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals. Springer. p. 33. ISBN 978-3-319-01421-0. citing...
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    Aristotle's division of sensation and thought, which generally went against previous philosophers, with the exception of Alcmaeon. Due to Aristotle's...
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