Re: Patriarchy: Re: What Matriarchy?
Stephen Barnard (steve@megafauna.com)
Wed, 07 Aug 1996 16:20:19 -0800
Stuart Yeates wrote:
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> Stephen Barnard (steve@megafauna.com) wrote:
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> : An "attempt" to discover something doesn't amount to success at discovering
> : it. Aristotle had an amazing blind spot: He was either ignorant of or
> : comtemptuous of the experimental method. His writings are full of howlers
> : that a simple experiment can refute.
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> I beg to differ.
No need to beg. Just go right ahead and differ.
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> You suggest that because Aristotle didn't use experimental method, he
> was either ignorant of it or comtemptuous of it. There are other
> possibilities which you don't allude to. The one is that he left
> it for others to do, another is that he believed that all useful
> theories (in a given field) could be derived without it, thus
> making it redundant.
Neither you nor I can go back in time and find out how Aristotle felt about
the experimental method. Actually, I don't care how he felt about it. The
fact is that he had no use for it.
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> Please don't post unqualified, unsupported claims of ignorance or
> comtempt to alt.pagan (and if you didn't mean to post to alt.pagan,
> please check the Newsgroups: line).
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Are you like a personal friend of Aristotle's? Are you in some sort of
communication with him?
Steve Barnard
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