{"id":812,"date":"2024-01-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=812"},"modified":"2024-01-12T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T18:18:30","slug":"aristotles-theory-of-universals-by-gregory-salmieri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/aristotles-theory-of-universals-by-gregory-salmieri\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristotle\u2019s Theory of Universals by Gregory Salmieri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>In this lesson, Salmieri explains Aristotle\u2019s theory of universals and how that theory makes possible scientific understanding (epist\u0113m\u0113) of this world based on sense-perception. The lesson explains that universal knowledge, for Aristotle, is a power to know particulars as falling under kinds. Salmieri concludes with a discussion of a famous chapter of the Posterior Analytics, in which Aristotle uses a battlefield metaphor to explain how we grasp universals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course includes a handout: https:\/\/courses.aynrand.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Greg_Salmieri-Aristotles_Theory_of_Knowledge.pdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesson 2 of 3 in &#8220;Aristotle&#8217;s Theory of Knowledge&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 1985 \u2013 2024 The Ayn Rand Institute (ARI). Reproduction of content and images in whole or in part is prohibited. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this lesson, Salmieri explains Aristotle\u2019s theory of universals and how that theory makes possible scientific understanding (epist\u0113m\u0113) of this world based on sense-perception. The lesson explains that universal knowledge, for Aristotle, is a power to know particulars as falling under kinds. Salmieri concludes with a discussion of a famous chapter of the Posterior Analytics,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[781,200,439,332,12,113],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ancient-greece","tag-aristotle","tag-epistemology","tag-knowledge","tag-philosophy","tag-reason","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}