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>I'm reading aristotle rn, almost done with vol 1.
Which book are you reading?
>I just picked up Farnsworth's classical english rhetoric, it looks bussin af.
Thanks for the recommendation, someone mentioned that in another thread but I don't think they had read it. Check out this book.
https://archive.org/details/logicorrightuseo00watt
table of contents in picrel
The idea is that Elements teaches logic because it starts by listing definitions of terms and simple concepts which are to be taken as given. Then it deduces other more complex concepts from these, presenting deductive arguments that prove them. And then it presents arguments for other yet more complex concepts deduced from those concepts, and so on. This way of building complex ideas (theorems) from simple ideas (axioms) is logic and it's a way of thinking that's transferable to other areas of life. It's building knowledge from scratch spelling out the premises and the conclusions.
There is no reason to wait, you can start right now. The first thing you learn is how to draw a perfect like-sided triangle, using only a compass and a straight edge, ie a ruler with no markings. Do you know how to do that? Then it tells you how you can know that the sides are exactly the same length. For the whole book you are only allowed to use a compass and a straight edge.
for drawing
https://www.desmos.com/geometry
After drawing try to give a deductive argument for how you can know that the sides are the same length.
After trying on your own the solution is for example in these four links below.
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/propI1.html
https://elements.ratherthanpaper.com/1.1
(edit: !!!SPOILER ALERT!!!
I thought maybe blacktexting the youtube links would prevent the images from being shown, but no. Spoiler alert, don't hover over these two blacktexts before you try to draw the triangle.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLlThlqCFeg&list=PL2V76rajvC1I2TrbPMRLcTqhdcbha4sDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q29U3_2PIiM&list=PLrkQ3hzZrc4j9gT0z--_CiFzQLeVb32hQ