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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which achievement is credited to Aristotle?
A
He wrote the play Antigone.
B
He developed a system of logic.
C
He was known as the Father of History.
D
He described an ideal form of government in his writing.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th-century advances in mathematical logic.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aristotle’s greatest achievement is characterized by the person who is making the determination. A collection of his greatest achievements includes the creation of formal logic and the development of literary criticism and theory. He is also known for the great achievement of ethics and politics.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aristotle’s logic, especially his theory of the syllogism, has had an unparalleled influence on the history of Western thought.

Detailed explanation-4: -The systematic study of logic seems to have been undertaken first by Aristotle. Although Plato used dialectic as both a method of reasoning and a means of philosophical training, Aristotle established a system of rules and strategies for such reasoning.

Detailed explanation-5: -With Prior Analytics Aristotle made his most important contribution to logic: the syllogism. A syllogism consists of certain assumptions or premises from which a conclusion can be deduced. Aristotle referred to the terms as the “extremes” and the “middle.” The middle term is the conclusion that links the two extremes.

Detailed explanation-6: -For Aristotle, then, logic is the instrument (the “organon") by means of which we come to know anything. He proposed as formal rules for correct reasoning the basic principles of the categorical logic that was universally accepted by Western philosophers until the nineteenth century.

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