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      • A Brief Detour in Logic- Some Clarifications
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  • All About Aristotle
    • Podcast Episode 1- An Introduction
    • Podcast Episode 2- The Greek Stone and Bronze Age
    • Podcast Episode 3- The Greek Archaic Age
    • Podcast Episode 4- The Persian and Peloponesian Wars
    • Podcast Episode 5- Seven Wise Men
    • Podcast Episode 6- Anaximander and Anaximenes
    • Podcast Episode Seven- An Interview with Professor Marina McCoy
  • Human Cognition in the Age of AI

    The growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on human cognition reflects humanity’s increasing reliance on automation. Automation has historically allowed societies to develop more complex economic and social structures. Much of technological progress has been driven by general-purpose technologies (GPTs), which are defined by their “significant impact on aggregate productivity growth” (Crafts 2021). Each generation…

    neeoandblack

    February 12, 2026
    Science
    ai, artificial-intelligence, technology, neuroscience, Science
  • Introduction to Common Accidents, Properties, and Differentia

    Introduction Now that we have covered the predicables related to what is generally entitled ‘secondary substances’ (ie. that which is said of something, but is not in a substrate), it is time to elucidate that which is both said of something, as well as is in something. Common Accident The most rudimentary of these terms…

    Keegan Brady

    December 16, 2021
    philosophy
    consciousness, philosophy
  • A Brief Detour in Logic- Some Clarifications

    We shall take a brief detour in order to properly examine what it means to state something is in a subject, and to explain what it means to be predicated of a subject. First, we should explain what we mean by subject and predicate. The subject of a statement is what the subject is about.…

    Keegan Brady

    November 30, 2021
    philosophy
    logic, philosophy
  • Introduction to Genus and Species

    We shall now embark on the nature of the five Aristotelian predicables. First, we should define what a predicable is. A predicable can simply be defined as a system of relations that describe how a thing is of many. The first form of predicable is the genus. The ancient meaning of the word genus can…

    Keegan Brady

    November 30, 2021
    philosophy
    genus, philosophy

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