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Logic 25 Aristotles question

the more minute logicians, appealed directly to the light of reason or to self-evidence as the support of the principles of logic. Grote and other empiricists think that they have proved that Aristotle did not do this, inasmuch as he considered the first principles to owe their origin to induction from sensible experiences. No doubt, Aristotle did hols that to be the case, and held resonably that the general in the particular was directly percieved, an extraordinarily crude opinion. But that process of induction by which he held that first principles became known was according to Aristotle not to be recovered and [ori?ed]. It was not even voluntary. Consequently if Aristotle had been asked how he knew that the same proposition could not be at once true and false he could have given no other proof of it than its self-evidence. Grote and those who agree with him as well as some other schools of thinkers