Am I retarded, or is this text really difficult?
skill issue
Two things can be true at the same time. Don’t give up.
>>24733006Wait till you get to prior analytics. dont feel bad, anon, it's a top 10 most difficult philosophy book to read for a reasonI think Gregory "Beast" Adler's videos on Organon/categories would be helpful for you.
that's the first aristotle work you should read. he intended it to be that way. its only difficult because its very systematic, just read slowly and take notes on a simple notepad. if you have any question just ask DeepSeek (better than chatgpt).
>>24733128>DeepSeek (better than chatgpt).@grok is this true?
It is very difficult, the retards are the ones who say books like this are easy because they aren’t reading carefully. Al-Farabi thought it was bragworthy that he understood the Analytics (he didn’t). They were not well understood until the 13th century, so yes they are quite hard. Honestly as much of an organon dork as I am you can skim prior an and topics (except the first book), post an is essential though. Even there you can safely skip those autism chapters where he works out all the ways an apodeixis can be wrong. Just remember that apodeixis is a scientific explanation with the middle as explanans not a “proof”.
>>24733006im not sure if I would say difficult but I'm almost certain whatever the first book of the organon is is the slowest ive ever read in my life, and it also seemed like stuff that has just become common sense, maybe it was a big deal when it was first written down, or he was just writing it down so it would be impossible to forget but it seems superfluous for normal people
>>24733006I can at least say with confidence the Prior Analytics is the most tedious text I have ever read in my life.I think a big part of the problem is that the 'canonical' order of the six books is awful and there are crucial definitions and stipulations from earlier books that are only given in later books
>>24733183I think you were filtered, bro
