A dialogue between Moses (1392 -
1272 B.C.) and Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) - from Transcripts of their debate.
Written by P.K.Odendaal - 16 Feb.
2011
PART
2
The
Logical proof system.
Moses : And what are your theories and observations ?
Aristotle: Man is the crown and centre piece of the universe and thus his
position must be in the middle. And what is more - anybody can see that the
stars,sun and moon moves around the earth.
Moses: Wow !! You invented Logic, which was used for the next 2 200
years, and you tell me that you made these important and wild statements without
the scientific and mathematical process of your own Logic. Your notions for the
centrality of earth will not cut the mustard in any intellectual argument being,
as you term it, an irrelevant conclusion.
Aristotle: No, the system is quite easy, although I did not apply it to my
'wild statements' as you allege. I did use one of my irrelevant conclusions to
prove that one. But the Logical process is like this :
