On 30 Aug 2015, at 19:35, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>
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.
But theology the science did not get through, and today, despite your
critics on Aristotle, you continue to take his theology for granted,
and apparently without noticing it. But then you have just made
contradictory statements about this in your other post, making me
unsure why I try to answer to you, ... probably to make some pause as
I have a lot of works today-and-sequel.
Bruno
John K Clark
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