“there was no eclipse, even though I bathed”

Aristotle comes up with great examples. This is from Book 2 of the Physics:

“…for it would be absurd for a man to say that he had bathed in vain because the sun was not eclipsed, since the one was not done with a view to the other.”

When reading these sorts of passages from Aristotle, it is important to remember reports that he was “of a mocking disposition.” Sometimes I think he’s read as more innocent and classificatorily dry than he really is.