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Quotation from On the Motion and Gait of Animals by Aristotle
“I want to drink, says appetite; this is drink, says sense or imagination or mind: straightway I drink”
On the Motion and Gait of Animals, Motion of Animals, ch. 7, trans. A. S. L. Farquharson (1912)
An example of the practical syllogism in which desire supplies the premise and the conclusion is the act itself, without reflection.
Citation: "I want to drink, says appetite; this is drink, says sense or imagination or mind: straightway I drink" — Aristotle, On the Motion and Gait of Animals, Motion of Animals, ch. 7, trans. A. S. L. Farquharson (1912). (id aristotle-movement-and-progression-of-animals-q3)
