Kitap 3
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Also there is no room for deliberation about matters fully ascertained and completely formulated as sciences; such for instance as orthography, for we have no uncertainty as to how a word ought to be spelt. We deliberate about things in which our agency operates, but does not always produce uniform results; for instance about questions of medicine and of business; and we deliberate about navigation more than about athletic training, because it has been less completely reduced to a science; and similarly with other pursuits also.
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And we deliberate more about the artsA less well attested reading gives more about our opinions, and Aristotle does not usually distinguish sharply between the arts and crafts and the practical sciences (the theoretic sciences cannot here be meant, see 3.3,4). than about the sciences, because we are more uncertain about them.
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Deliberation then is employed in matters which, though subject to rules that generally hold good, are uncertain in their issue; or where the issue is indeterminate,The text is probably corrupt, and perhaps should be altered to run and in which the right means to take are not definitely determined. and where, when the matter is important, we take others into our deliberations, distrusting our own capacity to decide.
