ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Aristotle's philosophy and Aristotelian terminology, which we make use of in our common daily language. The body of Aristotle’s works, finally collected and edited about 250 years after his death and practically never changed since, contains as its first part the so-called Organon (that is, the Instrument, presumably the instrument which the philosopher uses in his work). It represents what are usually referred to as the logical works of Aristotle. Aristotle does not assume that all generation requires the separate existence of the male and the female; he knows that in some cases it is very difficult to attribute the role of the male or of the female to any part of the generating process. But on the whole, the male and the female are distinct. This, then, is how Aristotle describes the process of generation in those cases in which he thinks that the male animal emits semen.
