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Aristotle is the father of logic. Objectivism holds the validity of reason in conjunction with the method of logic as the means of the identification of existence. Ayn Rand referred to Aristotelean logic as the art of noncontradictory identification. Roderick Fitts did a synopsis of a section of Peikoff's Objectivism Through Induction he entitled Induction of Objectivity where he mentions a few shortcoming on Aristotle's behalf - not outright errors that you request. I am not familiar enough with Aristotle's works to be able to identify if it was erroneous in parts. 1
Maybe amplifying on the root of this: Aristotle was the father of logic because he was fundamentally this worldly rather than offering another world that is above or more-real than this one. His one-world philosophy was the fundamental response to his teacher Plato's two worlds (this world, and the world of the Forms). To put it in technical Objectivist terms: Aristotle, whatever his flaws, was the first one to shoot for (and in many respects nail) a philosophy based on the primacy of existence over consciousness. Objectivism can be seen as completing/strengthening his program. |
