The Story of Philosophy, ch. 2 "Aristotle and Greek Science," sec. 3 "The Foundation of Logic" (1926) - Durant, William James | WIST Quotations
How many a debate could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms? This quotation is frequently misattributed (without citation) to Aristotle (sometimes using "dispute" instead of "debate"), but none of the sources pre-date this passage by Durant. Durant is speaking of…
