On 1/31/2020 4:03 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 6:03 AM Lawrence Crowell
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> While Aristotle's ideas of physics are wrong in many ways, they
are in some ways a bit more rational than what Plato came up with.
Aristotle's ideas of physics, such as heavy objects always fall faster
than light ones, were not just wrong they were stupid, they could
easily have been disproven even with the primitive technologyof his time.
The funny thing is Galileo disproved it by the same kind of armchair
analysis in which Aristotle and Plato indulged; while Aristotle relied
on observation (bricks really to fall faster than feathers).
Brent
That didn't happen because neither Aristotle or Plato or any other
ancient Greek discovered the Scientific Method. Aristotle wrote that
women had fewer teeth than men, it's known that he was married, twice
in fact, yet he never thought of just looking into his wife's mouth
and counting.
John K Clark
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