Irwin, Terence H. (2000). Ethics as an inexact science: Aristotle's ambitions for moral theory. In Brad Hooker & Margaret Olivia Little (eds.), Moral particularism. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 100-29. 9. Perception and PrudenceSo far I have suggested that Aristotle thinks of perception primarily as a means of applying general rules to particular cases, so that we recognize all the rel..