Part of a symposium on “Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice” sponsored by King’s College, London, May 13, 2000.
By John Unsworth
According to Aristotle, scientific knowledge (episteme) must be expressed in statements that follow deductively from a finite list of self-evident statements (axioms) and only employ terms defined from a finite list of self-understood terms (primitives). [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Read on at http://people.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/Kings.5-00/primitives.html