more humor, Aristotle-style

Maybe I’m the only one who laughs at these things (and literally “out loud”). But I see it as a genuine comic talent Aristotle has for stating the obvious as though it were an important technical point (as, in fact, it usually is):

“But to say that Troy has just been taken– we do not say that, because it is too far from the ‘now.'”

Physics, 4.13

An entire book called Aristotle’s Jokes is probably in order.