Aristotle's Original Idea: For and Against Logic in the era of AI

The ideas that he raised in his study of logical reasoning carried the development of science over the centuries. Any scientific theory's mathematical formalization is one that falls under his idea of Demonstrative Science. T oday, in the era of AI, this title of the fatherhood of logic has a renewed significance . Behind it li es his original idea that human reasoning c ould be studied as a process and that perhaps there exist universal systems of reasoning that underly all human reasoning irrespective of the content of what we are reasoning about . This is a daring idea as it ess entially says that the human mind can study itself and indeed that it has the capacity to unravel its own self. Irrespective of whether this is possible or not, it is a thought that is a prerequisite for the existence and development of Artificial Intellig ence. In this article, we look into Aristotle's work on human thought, his work on reasoning itself but also on how it relates to science and human endeavour more generally, from a modern perspective of Artificial Intelligence and ask if this can help enli ghten our understanding of AI and S cience more generally.