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Quotation from Posterior Analytics and Physics by Aristotle
“Now what is to us plain and obvious at first is rather confused masses, the elements and principles of which become known to us later by analysis.”
Posterior Analytics and Physics, Physics I.1 (184a), trans. R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (1930)
The method of the Physics: begin from what is clearer to us and advance toward what is clearer by nature.
Citation: "Now what is to us plain and obvious at first is rather confused masses, the elements and principles of which become known to us later by analysis." — Aristotle, Posterior Analytics and Physics, Physics I.1 (184a), trans. R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye (1930). (id aristotle-posterior-analytics-and-physics-q5)
Portrait: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575, After Lysippos, Public domain.
