Observation
What is quality and what is substance?
What are Aristotles Ten Categories? Explain what it is used for, not the categories themselves.
How is seeing things an art?
An art is a skill that needs to be practiced. We need to practice seeing well.
What are the sensible qualities?
color, odor, texture, flavor, sound.
What is the formula for determining a definition?
Closest differentia + genus = definition
What two ways do we see things?
Coarsely and vaguely or finely and taking in detail.
What is the first category?
Substance.
What makes a keen observer different from most people?
What are the different kinds of sensibles?
Proper and common sensibles.
True or false?
A plant is an irrational beast.
False
What motivates us to pay attention?
Fear and love.
Which category answers the question: What does the thing to do other things?
Action
What is the difference between natural things and artificial things?
Natural things are made by God, artificial things are made by man from natural things. Artificial things are a product of art.
What are the different senses?
Sight, touch, hearing, smell, sound.
True or false.
A mineral is an inanimate body.
True.
What is the art of nature?
Concealment.
Which category answers the question: Where is the thing?
Place
How is science an art?
Learning science is a skill that needs to be practiced.
Science may be taught and knowledge acquired, art is putting inspiration into practice.
Which sense does Aristotle say is the most important?
Sight, because we take the greatest delight in this sense.
True or false?
A human is a rational animal.
True.
What did Thoreau find remarkable about birds in winter?
Their beauty and contrasting color against the white snow.
Which category answers the question: What kind of thing is it?
Quality
What does it mean to see well?
To see things well is to observe with intention, to look at details, etc.
When we sense something, what are we sensing?
The qualities.
True or false?
A body is an immaterial substance.
False.