On 1/27/2014 1:52 PM, LizR wrote:
On 28 January 2014 06:46, John Clark <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> You seem to take the Aristotelian (naturalist, materialist,
physicalist)
theology for granted.
I've said more than once that Aristotle was the worst physicist who ever
lived, he
certainly caused the most damage to the field.
Bruno is using Aristotle to mean "materialist", since Aristotle was apparently the
person who started physics on the materialism route. So "taking Aristotle for granted"
just means "taking materialism for granted". If you think Aristotle was a bad physicist,
then perhaps you shouldn't do that (assuming you do).
Democritus was arguably more "materialist" than Aristotle. He argued that everything was
made of few kinds of atoms and that they moved in random "swerves" that allowed them to
collide and interact. Aristotle argued there were different substances and that they had
teleological tendencies to be in their proper place.
Brent
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