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Quotation from Posterior Analytics and Physics by Aristotle
“since except intuition nothing can be truer than scientific knowledge, it will be intuition that apprehends the primary premisses”
Posterior Analytics and Physics, Posterior Analytics II.19 (100b), trans. G. R. G. Mure (1928)
The conclusion of the treatise: first principles are grasped not by demonstration but by nous.
Citation: "since except intuition nothing can be truer than scientific knowledge, it will be intuition that apprehends the primary premisses" — Aristotle, Posterior Analytics and Physics, Posterior Analytics II.19 (100b), trans. G. R. G. Mure (1928). (id aristotle-posterior-analytics-and-physics-q4)
Portrait: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575, After Lysippos, Public domain.
