Aristotelian Stories

Abstract When it comes to science writing, narrative has attracted little attention. This paper attempts fill this gap by presenting a brief pilot survey on in the Aristotelian Corpus. My main concern here is understand workings of process knowledge creation. Aristotle, apart from his paradigmatic role history knowledge, offers broad and varied corpus. The proceeds three steps: After few introductory remarks concept ‘narrative’, I will give overview Aristotle. Then, there follow examples for epistemic functions that, five grand narratives, actually ‘stories’, told demonstrate that he method construction, is, storytelling, which been very successful. attempt cast poetics-style list rules. shows Aristotle skillfully uses different forms order produce knowledge.