Unit 1 Passage 1 The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen. striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual
真理是什么呢?亚里士多德认为逻辑与它有关。他的讲义合集《工具论》(O rg a n o n,可 追溯到公元前4世纪)是最早的关于逻辑的详细著作。对于古希腊人而言,逻辑是追寻真理的 过程中用于分析语言的一种手段,因此它被认为是一种哲学。亚里士多德的逻辑学的基础是 三段论。最有名的三段论(它并非是在亚里士多德的著作中发现的)是: (所有的人都是要死的; 苏格拉底是人; 所以,苏格拉底是要死的。)