On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > The dogma did not come from Plato, nor even Aristotle, > All the ancient greeks in your own words " believe in what they understand, not necessarily in what they observe " and that was the problem. Aristotle believed that heavy objects fell more quickly than light ones, something that could have been easily disproved even on his own day but he understood it so well, or thought he did, that he didn't bother to make any observations on the matter. In the same way Aristotle "understood" that women had fewer teeth than men so he never thought it necessary to actually count the teeth in his wife's mouth even though he was married twice. And that sort of thinking is exactly why science made such little progress for 2000 years, from the ancient Greeks to the renaissance . John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
