Aristotle

ARISTOTLE ON KNOWLEDGE

• knowledge is perception because if we did not perceive , we would not understand
• natural world= real world
• reality of the world is in the matter and stuff

MATTER AND COAL

• everything in the world is made of stuff called matter
• matter of each object has the potentially for acquiring a form proper to the object called its end form of telos
• motion is actualising of the potentiality of an object
• all objects seek to achieve their natural goal/final form

ACTUALISATION EXAMPLE (ACORN AND OAK TREE)

• ACORN HAS THE potentiality to become an oak tree
• process of…