Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: aristotle
IPA transcription: ['ɛɹəst,ɑtəl]
Pronunciations of aristotle
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Aristotle
    Meaning: one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
Usage examples
  • Whence Aristotle concludes (Ethic.
  • If we had to seek paternity for ideas I would much rather turn to Aristotle.
  • Aristotle recognises between these two logical correlatives a difference in rank.
  • The whole metaphysics of Aristotle is dominated by the distinction between form and matter.
  • Some men, Aristotle tells us, are slaves by nature; only physical functions are spontaneous in them.
  • He is an unmoved mover, like Aristotle's God and like every ideal to which thought or action is directed.
  • Man has to-day no concept that is too wide and deep and abstract for the mind of Plato or Aristotle to grasp.
  • Paul and Bunyan are of the same school of moralists and stylists; Butler went to school to the Stoics, to Aristotle, and to Plato.
  • But what about the shape of the orbit--Was it after all possible that Aristotle, and every philosopher since Aristotle, had been wrong?
  • These few definitions will make clear the singularly ingenious idea of Aristotle on the nature of the body, the soul, and of their union.
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