Aristotle certainly recognized that the accumulation of political knowledge you might say the gathering of data the organization of facts is very important. Books III IV V of the Politics shows the empirical side of Aristotle's politics.

亚里士多德确实,体认到积聚政治知识,你也能说是收集数据,整理实证是非常重要的事,政治学》第，III，IV，V，册显示出,亚里士多德政治的,经验依据层面。

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