| Entirely secondary, Topsell's research relies on sources like Aristotle, Pliny, Plutarch, and Strabo to build its account. |
| Some interpreters have Aristotle distinguish the sciences on the basis of their degree of abstraction from matter. |
| If reason could create or destroy feelings, then Aristotle would not be faced with the problem of akrasia. |
| Aristotle displays some hesitation in his discussion of desire and its relation to practical reason in the aetiology of animal action. |
| In ancient philosophy, quintessence was believed to be the stuff of heavenly bodies, which Aristotle credited as divine, alive and intelligent. |
| Greeks like Aristotle, who opposed atomism, equated it with a blind desire to abnegate the governance of Nature in favour of pure chance. |
