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For Aristotle, in a sense, the exception proves the rule. He is content to make statements that are normally true without being troubled that there are, of course, exceptions — something hard for people now to accept. Say a human hand has f…

I think Book 1 is setting us up. It reminds us at least twice that Aristotle is looking at things in the conventional way, how people normally consider them — and then he sets that aside to “make a new beginning,” much as Plato does in the …