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Aristotle is a known ancient Greek philosopher who was born in 385-4 B.C. in a small town called Chalcidice Peninsula in Stagirus. His father Nicomachus died when he was still a child, and he was taken care by his guardian Proxenus. He joined the Academy of Plato when he was 18 years and studied Physics, Biology, Logic, Poetry, Music and Theatre, Metaphysics, politics, and linguistics, and he remained there till he was thirty-seven years. He constituted the first western philosophy from his writings, and when Plato died, he left Athens to tutor Alexander the great, which was an opportunity for him since he obtained many supplies and a number of opportunities that helped him establish the Lyceum library. Following Plato’s death, he shifted his study interests from Platonism to empirical concepts that were based on perception. He died in 322 B.C at the age of 62 in Euboea, Greece, and his philosophical influence lasted over 2300 years after his death although he faced …show more content…

Just as the mind’s thoughts do not necessarily consist of truth and falseness, so is speech since is generally drawn from the mind. The second section expounds on the noun which is a sound that is conventionally significant and has no reference to time. It also mentions the categories of nouns such as simple and compound and their significance to their independent meaning. The third section gives information on the verb which has a notion of time and can be of something that is predictable or present. Verbs are substantive in nature and are significant in forming a connection with things that are connected. The fourth section discusses a sentence and how it is a portion of speech while the fifth section gives a simple explanation on denial and propositions using

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