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Shields, Christopher, "Aristotle", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2015 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/aristotle/>.
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@InCollection{sep-aristotle,
	author       =	{Shields, Christopher},
	title        =	{Aristotle},
	booktitle    =	{The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
	editor       =	{Edward N. Zalta},
	howpublished =	{\url{http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/aristotle/}},
	year         =	{2015},
	edition      =	{Fall 2015},
}