You can't prove that Aristotle didn't exist. The only evidence is the writings of his student Plato. Aristotle may, in fact, be a literary device of Plato, just like Atlantis.
You mean Socrates. Plato wrote about the defense of Socrates in his dialogues. Aristotle was a student of the Academy that Plato founded. Aristotle was the teacher of Alexander the Great, so there are historical records that note Aristotle and Plato.
;You can't prove that Aristotle didn't exist.
Heck I can't even prove that any given freeper exists. For all I know any given screen name could be manned by the lower primates ;-)
One Solitary Life
Here was a man.
A man who was born in a small village; the son of a peasant woman. He grew up in another small village. Until he reached the age of thirty he worked as a carpenter.
Then for three years, he was a traveling minister. But he never traveled more than two hundred miles from where he was born. And where he did go he usually walked.
He never held political office, he never wrote a book, he never bought a home, he never had a family, he never went to college, and he never set foot inside a big city but yes, here was a man.
Though he never did one on the things that you'd usually associate with greatness here was a man he had no credentials but himself. He had nothing to do with this world except through the divine purpose that brought him to this world.
And while he was still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against him. Most of his friends ran away; one of them denied him, one of them betrayed him and turned him over to his enemies.
Then he went through the mockery of a trial and was nailed to a cross between two thieves. Even while he was dying, his executioners gambled for the only piece of property that he had in the world, which was his robe.
When he was dead, he was taken down from the cross and laid in a borrowed grave provided by compassionate friends.
More than twenty centuries have come and gone and today he's a centerpiece of the human race. Our leader in the column to human destiny. And I think I'm well within the mark when I say that all of the armies that ever marched, of all of the navies that ever sailed the seas, of all of the legislative bodies that ever sat, and all of the kings that ever reigned; All of them put together had not affected the life of man on this earth so powerfully as that one solitary life.
Yes, here was a man.