Interviewer: Hello Aristotle, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed and I hope to learn much from a great philosopher like yourself. First and foremost, I would like to know your theory on knowledge, are you an empiricist or a rationalist?
Aristotle: I am an empiricist at heart, I do believe that empiricism makes more sense than rationalism, as it is more logical to believe that we learn from experiences, rather than have innate knowledge before existence. I strongly support the belief that we must experience things and use our senses in order to gain true knowledge. For example, if I see one duck, then I learn what the duck looks like and can infer that the other ducks look very similar to it. This view in life helps me because I like to always have evidence of everything and I believe that the only things that are truly real, are the things that can be seen. Our senses are amazing, as they help us learn more about the world that we see before us. I think that knowledge can be gained through sensations, as in the beginning, our minds start out as a blank slate and through sensations, we can start filling our mind up with content.
Interviewer: I have a very important question to ask, what are your thoughts on Plato’s theory of forms? Do you agree or disagree with it?
Aristotle: I reject Plato’s theory of forms, which speaks about how forms (ideas) exist outside of time and space and outside of the realm of perception (what we can see) and thus there are two different
Aristotle: I am an empiricist at heart, I do believe that empiricism makes more sense than rationalism, as it is more logical to believe that we learn from experiences, rather than have innate knowledge before existence. I strongly support the belief that we must experience things and use our senses in order to gain true knowledge. For example, if I see one duck, then I learn what the duck looks like and can infer that the other ducks look very similar to it. This view in life helps me because I like to always have evidence of everything and I believe that the only things that are truly real, are the things that can be seen. Our senses are amazing, as they help us learn more about the world that we see before us. I think that knowledge can be gained through sensations, as in the beginning, our minds start out as a blank slate and through sensations, we can start filling our mind up with content.
Interviewer: I have a very important question to ask, what are your thoughts on Plato’s theory of forms? Do you agree or disagree with it?
Aristotle: I reject Plato’s theory of forms, which speaks about how forms (ideas) exist outside of time and space and outside of the realm of perception (what we can see) and thus there are two different