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True or false: According to Aristotle, poetry and rhetoric were considered 'productive' sciences and were viewed as rational pursuits?
True or false: According to Aristotle, poetry and rhetoric were considered 'productive' sciences and were viewed as rational pursuits?
True
True or false: Aristotle's universe is effectively an open system where each entity is guided by an internalized purpose toward the fulfillment of its own nature?
True or false: Aristotle's universe is effectively an open system where each entity is guided by an internalized purpose toward the fulfillment of its own nature?
False
True or false: Aristotle embraced some of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century notions of poetic autonomy?
True or false: Aristotle embraced some of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century notions of poetic autonomy?
False
True or false: According to the text, Aristotle's universe is governed by the notion of substance, from the lowest level to God as the First Cause?
True or false: According to the text, Aristotle's universe is governed by the notion of substance, from the lowest level to God as the First Cause?
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True or false: Poetry, in Aristotle's system, is analyzed and classified in a different way than the other branches of human knowledge and activity?
True or false: Poetry, in Aristotle's system, is analyzed and classified in a different way than the other branches of human knowledge and activity?
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True or false: According to Aristotle, poetry and rhetoric had the status of 'productive' sciences and were viewed as rational pursuits?
True or false: According to Aristotle, poetry and rhetoric had the status of 'productive' sciences and were viewed as rational pursuits?
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True or false: Aristotle's universe is effectively a closed system where each entity is guided by an internalized purpose toward the fulfillment of its own nature?
True or false: Aristotle's universe is effectively a closed system where each entity is guided by an internalized purpose toward the fulfillment of its own nature?
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True or false: Aristotle's universe is governed by the notion of substance, from the lowest level to God as the First Cause?
True or false: Aristotle's universe is governed by the notion of substance, from the lowest level to God as the First Cause?
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True or false: Poetry, in Aristotle's system, is analyzed and classified in the same way as the other branches of human knowledge and activity?
True or false: Poetry, in Aristotle's system, is analyzed and classified in the same way as the other branches of human knowledge and activity?
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True or false: According to the passage, Aristotle embraced some of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century notions of poetic autonomy?
True or false: According to the passage, Aristotle embraced some of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century notions of poetic autonomy?
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