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To: snarks_when_bored

And then there's Aristotle. How many years did people depend on his laws?


15 posted on 09/19/2005 3:54:13 AM PDT by bkepley
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To: bkepley
And then there's Aristotle. How many years did people depend on his laws?

The key here is that Aristotle, as brilliant as he was, had no conception of empirical science as practiced since the late 15th century or so in the West. His results were arrived at by some observation, yes, but his theoretical conceptions were spun out of his reason and were not subject to empirical test.

So I'll point out that in my previous reply to you I wrote: "Well-established laws in science..."

17 posted on 09/19/2005 3:58:07 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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