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I am fairly ignorant about philosophy in general but what the author is saying jibes perfectly with what little I remember from reading Aristotle in Greek Philosophy. My sum total of the teachings of Aristotle is this. 1. Everything begins with the senses. 2. From the senses one learns discrimination (the ability to tell one thing from the other). 3. From discrimination one gains knowledge. 4. From knowledge one can gain wisdom (the ability to make predictions). He seemed like the father of modern science to me at the time I was taking the class. I suspect that I might even be missing a step up above but it's a pretty nice system all the same.