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Name
Word.
Contract Address
Token ID
10
Token Standard
ERC-721
Description
Glad to introduce the 10th algo output artwork in the Word. Collection on SuperRare. In this piece we are taking a trip back in time to 335 BC Athens, Greece - and there in the Lyceum, which served as a center for teaching, research, and philosophical discourse, Aristotle wrote the Organon. Aristotle’s works were not written as polished books intended for publication but as lecture notes or manuals for his students. The Organon was later compiled into its current form by his followers, notably by Andronicus of Rhodes in the 1st century BC, who organized Aristotle's surviving works into the Corpus Aristotelicum, including the logical treatises.
Aristotle's Organon is considered the first systematic work on logic because it formalized the study of reasoning into a coherent and structured discipline. Before Aristotle, reasoning was used in philosophy and debate, but it was not formalized as a separate discipline. Philosophers like the Sophists and Pre-Socratics explored arguments, and Plato discussed dialectic reasoning, but there was no systematic framework. Aristotle was the first to develop a comprehensive system of logic, organizing reasoning into explicit rules and categories that could be analyzed and applied universally.
The Organon introduces the concept of syllogisms—arguments consisting of premises that logically lead to a conclusion. This was a revolutionary way of understanding and evaluating reasoning. Aristotle's Organon evolved to become a foundational influence on computing in general and nowadays AI in particular, as it established key principles of structured reasoning that resonate through the evolution of logical systems, computation, and artificial intelligence.
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Collection overview:
Over a period of 33 days, the Word. collection will evolve daily to encompass various historically significant texts, each rendered into unique visual representations through an evolving generative algorithm. Each piece serves as a focal point, capturing moments where written words have irrevocably altered the course of human evolution in various languages and from different cultures and eras.
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Artist
Deconstruct
Source Language
Ancient Greek
Source
The Organon
Source Creator
Aristotle
Source Country
Ancient Greece
Aspect Ratio
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